“Quaran-Stream!”

Robert Thompson, a Trustee Professor of Television, Radio and Film in the Newhouse School, was quoted by Entertainment Weekly in the article “Quaran-Stream!” Widespread stay-at-home orders during the COVID-19 pandemic have led to an uptick in streaming services across the U.S., and  the article discusses how patterns developed by consumers during the pandemic may become the new normal. Professor Thompson, an expert on pop culture, said that while the entertainment was already changing, the pandemic accelerated the change. He said that there once “were all these other ways that [content] used to be delivered to us, and now it’s one single means of delivery, and that is online… and once you’ve learned to stream stuff — what you want to watch, when you want to watch it– it’s hard to go back.”