New Hampshire

  • Jobs
    • The motion picture and television industry supported 1,487 direct jobs and 525 production related jobs.
    • The software industry supported 15,055 direct jobs and 32,316 jobs in total.
    • Local television supported 6,730 jobs.
    • Local radio supported 4,710 jobs.
    • The app economy supported 21,280 jobs in the computing workforce.
  • Wages
    • $78.38 million in wages generated from the motion picture and television industry.
    • $25.18 million earned by new media and internet creators
    • In the local app economy, the average computing salary is $94,938.
  • State Economic Impact
    • Local software industry contributed $2.736 million to U.S. GDP
    • Local television contributed $3.17 billion to U.S. GDP.
    • Local radio contributed $2.22 billion to U.S. GDP.
  • U.S. Copyright Registrations [2011-2017]
    • Total Registrations: 10,921
      • Visual Arts Total: 1,293
      • Performing Arts Total: 1,669
      • Sound Recording Total: 1,375
      • Literary Works: 6,584
  • Creative Community By the Numbers
    • 15 video gaming companies
    • 70 local commercial radio stations
    • 4 local commercial television stations
    • 699 music publishers and 2,358 songwriters
    • 40 newspaper publications
    • 930 graphic designers
    • 180 photographers
  • Creative Spotlight
    • Notable creators who hail from the state of New Hampshire:
      • Mandy Moore, actor/singer
      • Sarah Silverman, comedian
  • The top 5 New Hampshire daily newspapers by circulation are the New Hampshire Union Leader, The Laconia Daily Sun, The Conway Daily Sun, Valley News, and Concord Monitor.
  • Yankee Publishing, a media company that publishes the Old Farmer’s Almanac, is headquartered in Dublin, New Hampshire.
  • Picaboo, an image printing service, is headquartered in Hanover, New Hampshire.
  • Jumanji was partly filmed in New Hampshire.
  • On November 7, 1783, New Hampshire enacted its first state copyright law.
  • Peterborough, New Hampshire was the inspiration for the setting of Thornton Wilder’s play Our Town.
  • The nation’s oldest newspaper is The New Hampshire Gazette. It was founded on October 7, 1756.

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