Kent Ninomiya is the first male Asian American broadcast journalist to be a primary news anchor of a television station in the United States.
12 Facts About Kent Ninomiya
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Kent Ninomiya was the first Asian American man to be a main anchor.
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Kent Ninomiya became the primary news anchor for KSTP-TV in Minneapolis-St Paul in 2003.
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Kent Ninomiya's co-anchor, Harris Faulkner, is an African American female.
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Kent Ninomiya first became a full-time news anchor in 1999 when he was named the weekday 5am - 7am morning news anchor for KGO-TV, the ABC owned and operated television station in San Francisco.
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From 2001 through 2003 Kent Ninomiya anchored the weekend evening news at KCOP in Los Angeles.
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Kent Ninomiya worked with several prominent co-anchors there including Gina Silva, Jennifer Gould, Maria Quiban and Lauren Sanchez.
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Kent Ninomiya appeared on the air for both Los Angeles television stations.
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Kent Ninomiya first appeared on the air as a television news anchor in 1989 when he was the weekday morning news anchor for KIEM, the NBC television station in Eureka, California.
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Kent Ninomiya's first appearance on television was in early 1989 at WGGB, the ABC television station in Springfield, Massachusetts, where he was an assignment editor and reporter.
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Kent Ninomiya has a bachelor's degree in social sciences from the University of California at Berkeley and was a fellow of Journalism Ethics at the Poynter Institute.
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Kent Ninomiya is a lawyer at Ninomiya Law, PLLC specializing in mass media and social media law.