Golden Mic for Outstanding Coverage of the Cerritos plane crash in 1986.

After this first go-around in San Diego, Ojeda decided to travel up north to Los Angeles in 1991 to continue his career as a weekend sports anchor for KCOP-TV. While in Los Angeles, Ojeda was named Best Weekend Sports Anchor by the Associated Press in 1995.

“I had an opportunity to go to Los Angeles and I just kind of wanted to get a taste of that big, big market and I was doing sports at that time so that was very neat. I got to do some of my most memorable things when I was doing sports.” he said. “Whether it was following Magic Johnson around with the Lakers or when the Los Angeles Kings hockey teammade their first Stanley Cup run that year and we got to go to Toronto and Montreal. So it was nice and a lot of traveling. That said though, it was probably not the best place to raise a young family and so after five years we decided to come back home and that’s where I landed with NBC.”

In 1996, the journalist returned to San Diego and found his home away from home at NBC.

After all the stories he has covered, and all the accomplishments in his career, family remains important to Ojeda. In fact, he admits with a laugh that “raising my two kids” has been the biggest accomplishment of his career, though the credibility he has established with his audience remains just as important.

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