Kentucky

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• Jobs
  • The motion pictures and television industry supported 4,219 direct jobs and 985 production-related jobs.
  • The software industry supported 22,854 direct jobs and supported 26,570 jobs in total.
  • Local television supported 18,970 jobs.
  • Local radio supported 11,870 jobs.
  • The app economy supported 33,571 jobs in the computing workforce.

• Wages
  • $157.25 million in wages generated from the motion picture and television industry
  • $41.25 million earned by new media and internet creators
  • In the local app economy, the average computing salary is $77,000.

• State Economic Impact
  • Local software industry contributed $2.573 billion to U.S. GDP.
  • Local television contributed $8.68 billion to U.S. GDP.
  • Local radio contributed $5.4 billion to U.S. GDP.

• U.S. Copyright Registrations [2011-2017]
  • Total Registrations: 17,555
    • Visual Arts: 2,710
    • Performing Arts: 3,199
    • Sound Recordings: 4,162
    • Literary Works: 7,484

• Creative Community By the Numbers
  • 18 video gaming companies
  • 2,448 music publishers and 11,631 songwriters
  • 295 local commercial radio stations
  • 20 local commercial television stations
  • 95 newspaper publications
  • 1,850 graphic designers
  • 410 photographers

• Creative Spotlight
  
  • Notable creators who hail from Kentucky:
    • Jennifer Lawrence, actor
    • Johnny Depp, actor
    • Muhammad Ali, boxer
    • George Clooney, actor
    • Dianne Sawyer, television journalist

• The top 5 Kentucky daily newspapers by circulation are The Courier-Journal, Lexington Herald-Leader, Bowling Green Daily News, Ownsboro Messenger-Inquirer, and The Paducah Sun.
• Raintree Country, Goldfinger, Rain Man, The Insider, Seabiscuit, and Elizabethtown were filmed in Kentucky.

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