Kent Ninomiya is the first male Asian American broadcast journalist to be a primary news anchor of a television station in the United States.
He worked with several prominent co-anchors there including Gina Silva, Jennifer Gould, Maria Quiban and Lauren Sánchez.
During Ninomiya's time at KCOP, the news operation was merged with KTTV, the Fox station in Los Angeles, as part of a duopoly.
Kent Ninomiya graduated magna cum laude from St. Mary's University School of Law with a Juris Doctor.
He 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.