Jim Finnerty is an American

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. He worked on all seven seasons of the NBC police drama '' Homicide: Life on the Street''. He often works with ''Homicide'' executive producer

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. He also worked on HBO's ''Oz''.

Biography

Finnerty began his broadcast career as a news anchor in

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. That was followed by anchor/producer credits for network affiliated stations in

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and

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. He also has hosted for award-winning talk shows in

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and

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as well as the host for two successful specials on earthquakes and internet connectivity for

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. As the senior executive producer for CNX Media in San Francisco, Jim directed the broadcast teams that developed, produced and distributed nationally syndicated programming on health issues, personal finance and consumer travel. Jim was directly responsible for editorial supervision and creative decisions on syndicated daily television news inserts: ''Quicken.com Personal Finance Reports'', ''HealthCentral Reports with Dr. Dean Edell'' and the ''Consumer Travel Reports''. Finnerty was the unit production manager and a supervising producer on the series Homicide: Life on the Street for the pilot episode in 1993. He reprised this role when the show returned for a full season. He remained in this position until he was promoted to co-executive producer for the fourth season in 1995. He was awarded a plaque from the Directors Guild of America for his work as unit production manager when the episode "The Documentary" won the award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Dramatic Series. He was promoted to executive producer for the seventh and final season in 1998. He was also credited as an executive producer of the feature length follow-up '' Homicide: The Movie'' in 2000. He remained the series unit production manager throughout its run and was responsible for budgetary concerns at production meetings. While still working on ''Homicide'' Finnerty also served as a co-executive producer on the first season of

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prison drama '' Oz''. He returned to ''Oz'' as an executive producer for the sixth and final season in 2002. He worked as an executive producer and unit production manager on a second police drama with Fontana in 2000 - UPN's '' The Beat''. He also served as an executive producer with Fontana on the television movie ''

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'', which was scripted by ''Homicide'' writer

Frank Pugliese Frank Pugliese is an American TV writer and artistic director. He won a WGA Award for the '' Homicide: Life on the Street'' episode "Night of the Dead Living." He is also a playwright. In 2017 Pugliese became the co-showrunner of House of Cards. ...

in 2001. He was an executive producer and unit production manager for Fontana's short-lived courtroom drama '' The Jury'' in 2004. He received the same credits for Fontana's 2008 drama series ''

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''. He was also an executive producer for Fontana's pilot ''M. O. N. Y.'' which was not picked up to series in 2008.

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