Disney-Fox Deal News Roundup: Everything You Need to Know About the M&E Megadeal (UPDATED)

The effect on sports television is expected to be transformative and world-wide

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This morning, Disney made the worst-kept secret in the media industry official: it announced a definitive agreement to acquire a majority of 21st Century Fox assets. The move that will reshape the sports-TV landscape around the globe and covers 22 Fox Sports Regional Networks, Sky’s pan-European operations (prior to the deal, 21st Century Fox is expected to seek to complete its planned acquisition of the 61% of Sky it doesn’t already own), Star India, and Tata Sky. The deal does not include the Big Ten Network, FS1, or FS2. With a story this big, there’s a lot of information to digest, so SVG has compiled a rundown of reports from around the web regarding ramifications of the deal — especially on the sports sector.

UPDATED Dec. 15, 9:30 a.m. ET: Here are more of the latest reports and analysis from around the web: