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Examining the toxic Caitlin Clark discourse, robust World Cup viewership and the latest on Dianna Russini and sports media access
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- Jul 4, 2026
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Episode 637 of the Sports Media Podcast with Richard Deitsch features a roundtable with Austin Karp, the media writer for Sports Business Journal and Jane McManus, an editor at Storied Sports and the author of "The Fast Track: Inside the Surging Business of Women’s Sports." In this podcast we discuss the preliminary U.S. audience numbers for the USMNT’s knockout win Wednesday over Bosnia and Herzegovina; what it means to have the most-watched English-language soccer telecast and the most-watched Spanish-language soccer telecast in U.S. history; what is realistic for viewership of the U.S.-Belgium on Monday; Telemundo’s EVP/Sports & Head of Streaming telling Karp that it may entail a scenario where “we combine with both languages” by adding the English rights to the Spanish rights the company already has across Telemundo and Peacock; the never-ending discourse surrounding Caitlin Clark; why every argument about Clark feels like a cultural war test; the failure of WNBA officials to be proactive on this topic; whether this is having any business impact on the WNBA; Adam Herbets, an investigative reporter for The Center Square, obtaining the body-worn camera footage of New Jersey police officer that spoke with Dianna Russini; whether that act would be a prompt a suspension at The Athletic; McManus on the stark differences of male reporters covering the NFL space versus female reporters and more.You can subscribe to this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify and more.