Racquet co-founder Caitlin Thompson on how we consume tennis in the United States — and how that media consumption could be better

Sports Media with Richard Deitsch

Audacy

News, Business News, Sports, Sports News

4.3 • 721 Ratings

🗓️ 1 June 2023

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Episode 307 of the Sports Media Podcast with Richard Deitsch features Caitlin Thompson, the co-founder of Racquet, a tennis-focused media company with a flagship quarterly print magazine, and the co-host of The Racquet Magazine Podcast with Rennae Stubbs. In this podcast, Thompson and Deitsch discuss the most interesting players today; whether tennis needs a 1-2 rivalry at the top such as Iga Swiatek versus Aryna Sabalanka; how Thompson formed Racquet and the challenges of running a tennis media brand; how she views coverage of tennis today from the broadcast end to the lack of legacy publications covering the sport daily; the nightmare of watching the French Open because of multiple broadcast entities; her biggest issues with ESPN as a dominant tennis career; the sport hurting itself by who it doesn’t credential and limiting highlight access; what tennis Twitter is like and more. You can subscribe to this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Google Play, Spotify, Stitcher, and more. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:37.3	Hey everybody, this is Richard Dich and welcome to the sports media podcast.
0:40.4	My producer is Patrick Antonetti.
0:42.3	The guest this week is Caitlin Thompson.
0:44.7	She is the co-founder of Rackett, a tennis-focused media company with a flagship quarterly print magazine.
0:53.1	They certainly go beyond the print magazine.
0:55.6	They're great merchandise, experiential events.
1:00.5	Kaelin also co-hosts the Rackett Magazine podcast with Renee Stubbs,
1:04.4	which I absolutely recommend.
1:06.7	Kailen Thompson really is just an interesting voice in tennis.
1:10.3	If you happen to have read her stuff or follow her on Twitter,
1:13.5	she's just really passionate and informative about the subject.
1:17.3	We worked together at Time Inc. way back in the day.
1:21.8	And she was the first person I ever did anything with podcasting.
1:25.3	She was running Time Magazine's podcasting department.
1:28.5	This was like in the late 2000s.
1:30.8	And she was just so ahead of the curve.
1:32.7	And I remember walking away thinking like, this woman is like crazy smart.
1:36.4	And somebody should give her like a million bucks to form this podcast idea because she will make this company a mint.
1:44.0	Naturally, of course, I don't think timing did that, and the rest is podcast history
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