New Hampshire

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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.