Tennessee

  • Jobs
    • The motion picture and television industry supported 12,150 direct jobs and 6,170 production related jobs.
    • The software industry supported 27,566 direct jobs and 53,500 jobs in total.
    • Local television supported 26,210 jobs.
    • Local radio supported 18,480 jobs.
    • The app economy supported 61,000 jobs in the computing workforce.
  • Wages
    • $851.62 million in wages generated from the motion picture and television industry.
    • $110.22 million earned by new media and internet creators
    • In the local app economy, the average computing salary is $79,536.
  • State Economic Impact
    • Local software industry contributed $4.612 billion to U.S. GDP
    • Local television contributed $12.08 billion to U.S. GDP.
    • Local radio contributed $8.52 to U.S. GDP.
    • The music industry contributed $6 billion to Tennessee’s GDP.
  • U.S. Copyright Registrations [2011-2017]
    • Total Registrations: 74,467
      • Visual Arts Total: 3,907
      • Performing Arts Total: 32,002
      • Sound Recording Total: 16,649
      • Literary Works: 21,909
  • Creative Community By the Numbers
    • 16 video gaming companies
    • 329 local commercial radio stations
    • 34 local commercial television stations
    • 30,041 music publishers and 56,578 songwriters
    • 118 newspaper publications
    • 3,480 graphic designers
    • 870 photographers
  • Creative Spotlight
    • Notable creators who hail from the state of Tennessee:
      • Morgan Freeman, actor
      • Dolly Parton, singer
      • Justin Timberlake, singer
      • Quentin Tarantino, director
      • Aretha Franklin, singer
  • The top 5 Tennessee daily newspapers by circulation are the Knoxville News Sentinel, The Tennessean, The Commercial Appeal, Chattanooga Times Free Press, and the Kingsport Times-News.
  • AC Entertainment, a music production company, is headquartered in Knoxville, Tennessee
  • Regal Entertainment Group is headquartered in Knoxville, Tennessee.
  • Gibson is headquartered in Nashville, Tennessee.
  • Grand Ole Opry is the longest running live radio broadcast in the entire world, starting in 1925.

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