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- Jobs
- The motion picture and television industry supported 11,848 direct jobs and 3,614 production-related jobs.
- The software industry supported 66,275 direct jobs and 143,650 jobs in total.
- Local television supported 43,250 jobs.
- Local radio supported 27,220 jobs.
- The app economy supported 127,060 jobs in the computing workforce.
- Wages
- $477.43 million in wages generated from the motion picture and television industry
- $136.09 million earned by new media and internet creators
- In the local app economy, the average computing salary is $83,910.
- State Economic Impact
- Local software industry contributed $10.551 billion to U.S. GDP.
- Local television contributed $20.37 billion to U.S. GDP.
- Local radio contributed $12.75 billion to U.S. GDP.
- U.S. Copyright Registrations [2011-2017]
- Total Registrations: 71,918
- Visual Arts: 7,374
- Performing Arts: 10,513
- Sound Recordings: 18,465
- Literary Works: 35,566
- Creative Community By the Numbers
- 40 video gaming companies
- 8,387 music publishers and 31,168 songwriters
- 333 local commercial radio stations
- 41 local commercial T.V. stations
- 176 newspaper publications
- 2,340 producers and directors
- 1,420 photographers
- Creative Spotlight
- Notable creators who hail from the state of Michigan:
- Madonna, singer
- Eminem, rapper
- Big Sean, rapper
- The Supremes, band
- The Temptations, band
- Stevie Wonder, singer
- Cathy Guisewite, cartoonist
- Steven Yeun, actor
- Anna Sui, fashion designer
- The top 5 Michigan daily newspapers by circulation are The Detroit Free Press, The Detroit News, The Grand Rapids Press, The Flint Journal, and Lansing State Journal.
- Motown Motion Picture Studios, motion picture company
- Detroit Institute of Arts, an art museum, has an art collection that is among the top six in the United States.
- The famous Motown record label was started in Detroit, Michigan.
- Detroit is home to radio station WWJ which was established in 1921 and is the fourth oldest radio station in the United States.
- Detroit is the thirteenth largest media market in the United States according to Nielsen.
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