The Caitlin Clark Effect
Inside the Hive
Vanity Fair
4.2 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 11 April 2024
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
Host Brian Stelter speaks with ESPN women's basketball reporter Alexa Philippou and Vanity Fair contributing editor Tom Kludt about a sport seemingly at an inflection point and surging in interest at both the college and pro levels. The group discusses stars who have helped drive enthusiasm for the game, including Caitlin Clark, Angel Reese and coach Dawn Staley. They also reflect on challenges inside women's basketball and women's sports more broadly, particularly how record viewership still hasn't led to pay parity.
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| 0:32.3 | read watch and hear. Vanity Fair. So, Alexa, the ratings for the women's college basketball final were off the charts. |
| 0:55.0 | 19 million viewers at least watching on television. |
| 1:00.0 | What does that number represent for the future of women's basketball? |
| 1:03.4 | It means that women's basketball is undeniable. |
| 1:06.6 | It's here. |
| 1:07.6 | It's something that you can't ignore, |
| 1:10.6 | especially when you compare those ratings to other sports. |
| 1:13.6 | I mean, we're talking about that game being |
| 1:16.0 | the most watched basketball game pro or college |
| 1:19.0 | over the last five years, the second most watched |
| 1:21.2 | non-Olympic women's sports event on record in and out through the men's final. |
| 1:25.4 | So if anyone, you as a fan or companies or media organizations, were putting women's |
| 1:32.8 | basketball to the side previously, you can't ignore it now. |
| 1:36.1 | That is Alexa Philippu who covers women's basketball for E-S-Bn and I'm Brian Selter. |
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