Entertainment Technology Task Force

A recent report from the Milken Institute stated, "The entertainment industry plays an important role in the Los Angeles economy. For example:

• The motion picture and television production industry directly accounts for roughly 185,000 jobs and $24 billion in output per year in Los Angeles County.
• Los Angeles accounts for more than one quarter of the nation.s movie and television production, a larger national presence than New York in financial services, Detroit in automobile production, and Las Vegas in gambling.

In 2000, Los Angeles accounted for 25 percent of the nation.s output of movie and television production. Motion picture and television production employment in Los Angeles increased from less than 70,000 in 1980 to roughly 185,000 in 2000. This growth rate was more rapid than in other sectors in Los Angeles, implying that movie and television production has played an increasingly large role in the economy over the past two decades."

The goal of this task force is to investigate how the entertainment industry will incent and utilize a gigabit network in California.