View of my Podcasts in iTunes is AWFUL :-(

Whe viwers come to our site they cannot read the full description of our podcasts. Nor can they expand the column to read the description:
http://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/quinnipiac-athletics-recreation/id250215965
What can I or someone do to make our (& other podcasts pages) be viewable and easier to read and display.
Thx

Yes, that's the feed URL - the other is the Store URL.
The black background is because it's a video podcast: audio podcasts are white.
In the list of episodes in the Store page, the 'Description' column used to be drawn from the 'itunes:subtitle' tag in each episode. Indeed Apple's own Tech Specs page claims that it is (they haven't updated it since the changes to the Store a few months back). In fact both the 'Description' column and the panel which appear when you click the 'i' button at the right (not present in your page) are drawn from the 'itunes:summary' tag.
The episodes in your feed have an 'itunes:subtitle' tag, but the 'itunes:summary' tag, though present, is empty:
<itunes:summary />
It needs to have an opening and closing tag with text in between:
<itunes:summary>text here</itunes:summary>
Most people put the same text in both tags. To add this text in Podcast Maker:
Select the episode you want to amend. An editing pane will open below the list. On the right of its toolbar are three buttons: Basic, Detail and Chapters. Click Detail and fill in the Summary field.
Once you have made this amendment to all the episodes and republished, it will take the Store a couple of days, possibly a bit more, to update.

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