Kent Ninomiya Biography
Kent Ninomiya is the first male Asian American broadcast journalist to serve as the primary news anchor for a US television station. Ninomiya began his career as a full-time news anchor in 1999, when he was hired as the weekday 5 a.m. – 7 a.m. morning news anchor for KGO-TV, an ABC-owned and operated television station in San Francisco.
Kent Ninomiya Age
Kent was born in 1966 in San Francisco, California, United States of America. He is 57 years old as of 2023.
Kent Ninomiya Education
Kent Ninomiya earned a Juris Doctor magna cum laude from St. Mary’s University School of Law. He holds a bachelor’s degree in social sciences from the University of California, Berkeley, and was a Poynter Institute fellow in Journalism Ethics.
Kent Ninomiya Family
Attempts to establish the identities of his family, her mother, and his father were in vain since no information about them is available to the public. It’s therefore not known whether he has any siblings.
Kent Ninomiya Career
In 2003, Kent Ninomiya took over as the primary news anchor for KSTP-TV in Minneapolis-St. Paul. Harris Faulkner, his co-anchor, is an African American woman. The all-minority main anchor team, which worked in a television market with very few minority viewers, was lauded by journalism organizations across the country as a bold step forward. In 2006 and 2007, Ninomiya was also the primary news anchor and managing editor at WICD in Champaign. Ninomiya began his career as a full-time news anchor in 1999, when he was hired as the weekday 5 a.m. – 7 a.m. morning news anchor for KGO-TV, an ABC-owned and operated television station in San Francisco.
Beth Spicuza, Carolyn Johnson, and Elizabeth Bermudez were his co-anchors at KGO. Ninomiya was the weekend evening news anchor at KCOP in Los Angeles from 2001 to 2003. There, he collaborated with several notable co-anchors, including Gina Silva, Jennifer Gould, Maria Quiban, and Lauren Sánchez. During Ninomiya’s tenure at KCOP, the news operation was merged with KTTV, the Los Angeles Fox station, to form a duopoly. Ninomiya made an appearance on both Los Angeles television stations.Ninomiya previously worked as a reporter and fill-in anchor in Los Angeles. He worked for WLS-TV, an ABC-owned and operated television station in Chicago, from 1993 to 1998. He worked at KGTV, an ABC television station in San Diego, from 1991 to 1993.
He worked for KFSN, an ABC-owned and operated television station in Fresno, from 1990 to 1991. He began working for KJEO (now KGPE), a CBS television station in Fresno, in 1990. Ninomiya made his television news debut in 1989 as the weekday morning news anchor for KIEM, an NBC television station in Eureka, California. He also worked as a reporter for that station. Ninomiya made his first television appearance in early 1989 at WGGB, an ABC television station in Springfield, Massachusetts, where he worked as an assignment editor and reporter. Prior to that, he interned at CNN’s Washington, D.C. bureau in 1988, KGO-TV in San Francisco in 1988, and KTVU in Oakland in 1987. Ninomiya is a lawyer at Ninomiya Law, PLLC specializing in mass media and social media law.
Kent Ninomiya Net Worth
Kent has an estimated net worth of 500 thousand dollars.