# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/jim-o-brien-q6197230
# Generated: 2026-08-14T23:21:19.235Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/jim-o-brien-q6197230"
name: "Jim O'Brien"
slug: "jim-o-brien-q6197230"
description: "James Franklin Oldham, better known as Jim O'Brien, was an American newscaster. He was a member of the WPVI-TV Channel 6 Action News team, which became the highest-rated television news team in the Philadelphia metropolitan area during the late 1970s and early 1980s."
tagline: "American journalist (1939-1983)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Journalists"
  slug: "journalists"
profileType:
  name: "Journalist"
  slug: "journalist"
birthDate: "1939-11-20"
deathDate: "1983-09-25"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           48.72
  momentum:             3.611704451306772
  historical:           3.213150666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     20
  profileCompleteness:  53
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%8A%D9%85_%D8%A3%D9%88%D8%A8%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%8A%D9%86_(%D8%B5%D8%AD%D9%81%D9%8A)"
    title: "جيم أوبراين (صحفي)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%8A%D9%85_%D8%A7%D9%88%D8%A8%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%8A%D9%86_(%D8%B5%D8%AD%D9%81%D9%89)"
    title: "جيم اوبراين (صحفى)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_O'Brien_(reporter)"
    title: "Jim O'Brien (reporter)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6197230"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-relations