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Ojeda moved to Ponce when he was still a youngster. While studying in high school, he got his first opportunity to talk live in a daily show, becoming a newscaster for Ponce's WPAB radio station.
Ojeda signed a contract with WAPA Radio in 1960, and he had to move to San Juan. He worked at WAPA-Radio until 1968, moving on that year to work for rival WKAQ-Radio Reloj . While there, he had to cover the historic riots at the University of Puerto Rico in 1971. A shooting ensued, and Ojeda, in the middle of the live transmission, went on to try to help a policeman who had been shot. Despite his efforts, the policeman still died from the gunshot.
Ojeda was later offered a job as the news director and anchorman of Telemundo Puerto Rico's television news show. He decided, however, not to take the job, opting instead to join then governor Rafael Hernandez Colon's staff, as a member of Puerto RicoThe Commonwealth of Puerto Rico ("Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico") is a self-governing unincorporated organized territory of the United States located in the northeastern Caribbean, east of the Dominican Republic. Puerto Rico, the smallest of the Gr's Communications Office. Ojeda needed to work as a journalistJournalism is a discipline of collecting, verifying, reporting and analyzing information gathered regarding current events, including trends, issues and people. It is sometimes defined more broadly as the pursuit of the truth. Those who practice journalis, however, and, by 1973Events January events January 1 United Kingdom, Ireland, and Denmark enter the European Economic Community now known as the European Union January 3 Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS) sells the New York Yankees for $10 million to a 12-person syndicate led, he decided to step in front of the television cameras for the first time, working at channel 11Tele Once ("once" is eleven in the Spanish language), now known as Univision Puerto Rico is a television station in Puerto Rico, on channel 11. In 1960, Rafael Perez Perry received authorization to start WKBM-TV and transmit over channel 11. At the time h's news show. Not long after that, Ojeda joined channel 11, the channel's owner had died and the channel went bankrupt, so Ojeda signed on with WAPA-TV to work as a reporter at Noticentro 4Noticentro 4 is a television news show in Puerto Rico. Produced by WAPA-TV (channel 4 in Puerto Rico's television dial), it has always competed with rival Telenoticias en Accion of Telemundo Puerto Rico (channel 2) for the Puerto Rican viewer's preference.
Ojeda spent most of his time at Noticentro 4 travelling across Puerto Rico, working as an on-the-field reporter, but he also sporadically got chances to host the show, usually filling in for a sick anchorman or womanPioneer plaque sent to outer space A woman is an adult female human being, as contrasted to an adult male, which is a man. The term woman (irregular plural: women is used to indicate biological sex distinctions, cultural gender role distinctions, or both.. He worked on various tragedies, government scandals and other types of news while at Noticentro 4.
In 1987, he was given his own talk show, "Ojeda, Sin Limites" ("Ojeda, Without Limits"). He became known for his strong questioning of participants of the show, and the show produced a number of classic moments of Puerto Rican television; such as the time that two of the three candidates for Puerto Rican commisioner in Washington, D.C., the PNP's Carlos Romero Barcelo (former governor of Puerto Rico) and the PPD's Miguel Hernandez Agosto got into a shouting match, calling each other "liar" multiple times on life T.V.
After his show was cancelled, Ojeda spent about a decade off television, but he went on with "Ojeda, Sin Limites", only that it became a radio show, on WAPA-Radio.
In 2000, he returned to television, with a show named " Ojeda ", once again, at WAPA-TV, which, by then, had the new name of Televicentro. Later on, he was offered a fifteen minute space on Televicentro's midday variety show, where he would accept calls from the public.
This 15 minute segment has been used by many viewers to call Ojeda and accuse him of being against the PNP party, of being payed by the PPD to talk bad about PNP candidates and so on. Ojeda responded to one caller in particular, by answering "I have never, ever been paid by any party and I will never be. The seriousness this career requires does not allow me to".
Ojeda now collaborates on a new radio station show as well.