Kent Ninomiya is broadcast journalism professional best known for his work as a television news anchor and reporter over the past 21 years.
Kent Ninomiya was the first Asian American man to be a primary news anchor at a U.S. television station. He worked as the main anchor at KSTP in Minneapolis and WICD in Champaign. He also anchored the weekend evening news at KCOP in Los Angeles and the weekday morning news at KGO in San Francisco.
Prior to that Kent Ninomiya was a reporter and fill in anchor at WLS in Chicago, KGTV in San Diego, KFSN in Fresno, and KJEO in Fresno. He also anchored the morning news and reported at KIEM in Eureka, California and was an assignment editor-reporter at WGGB in Springfield, Massachusetts.
Over the course of his career, Kent Ninomiya took several extended travel sabbaticals to circle the globe. He ventured to all 50 U.S. states and about 100 countries and regions on all 7 continents.
Kent Ninomiya is a California native. He has a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of California at Berkeley in Social Sciences with an emphasis in History, Political Science and Mass Communications.