Podcast app in iOS 7 downloading everywhere!

I had the apple podcast app only downloading audio podcasts on my iPhone and on my Mac it only downloaded video podcasts. That is how I cosume these. Since update to iOS 7, all podcasts appear on both iphone and mac. I don't want video podcasts on my iphone because I don't want to use the space there plus I do not watch them on the iphone, I watch them on my Macbook Air. Conversely, I don't listen to audio podcast on the MBA.
I don't remember how I got it to do this but it is not doing this after updating.
Anyone else do this that can tell me how to do it?
Thanks in advance.
Edgar

Odd also is that the synch problem I have with the Podcast app is onky on my iPod Touch where I've downloaded both the app and iOS 6. On my iPhone 4s and iPad 2 where I am still on iOS 5, the Podcast app seems to work, albeit I still receive the "We are sorry, but we are unable to authorize your account. Please contact customer service" for certain Podcast subscriptions.

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