How the Disney, Fox deal affects local sports coverage

The Walt Disney Company’s announcement Thursday that it has reached an agreement to buy key assets of Rupert Murdoch’s 21st Century Fox could have a profound effect on how sports is viewed in the coming years.
As the Burbank-based Disney assumes many of the L.A.-based Fox TV and movie properties, far down the line of things mentioned in the all-stock transaction valued at about $52.4 billion — and subject to federal approval – are the sports elements. Disney, which owns E