Frank Somerville
| Frank Somerville | |
|---|---|
| Born | Frank William Somerville March 19, 1958 San Luis Obispo, California, U.S. |
| Residence | Oakland, California, U.S. |
| Nationality | American |
| Ethnicity | White |
| Alma mater | San Francisco State University |
| Occupation | Journalist, news anchor |
| Years active | 1991–present |
| Television | KTVU (1991–present) |
Frank William Somerville (born March 19, 1958) is an American journalist.[1] He anchors the five-o'clock, six-o'clock, and ten-o'clock news hours at KTVU in Oakland, California. Somerville has received three Emmy awards at KTVU, including one for best on-camera news anchor.[2][3][4]
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Early life and education
Somerville was born on March 19, 1958 in San Luis Obispo, California, but raised in Berkeley, California, Alameda County, USA. He attended Berkeley High School and graduated in the class of 1976.[5] He attended San Francisco State University.[6] He was named after his father's childhood friend, Frank Patty, and his paternal grandfather, William Somerville.
Broadcast career
He was an intern at KTVU in 1981 while attending San Francisco State. After graduation he worked at local stations in Santa Rosa, California; Minneapolis, Minnesota; and Providence, Rhode Island before returning to the Bay Area. He became co-anchor of the station's morning news program in 1992, and was the first anchor of the 5 pm newscast when it launched in 2005. In 2008 he was named co-anchor of the 6 pm and 10 pm newscasts, replacing 40-year veteran Dennis Richmond.[5]
In 2013, Somerville apologized for an incident in which racist pilot names were read out in a broadcast on Asiana Airlines Flight 214.[7]
Personal life
He is married and has two daughters. One daughter is adopted and is African-American (Somerville is Caucasian). A picture of him styling her hair went viral on the Internet.[8][9][10][11]
Somerville has been a vegetarian since the age of 12. As a lark, he occasionally ate parts of dog biscuits until he was 14, when he realized they contained some meat.
Frank works out and practices the Israeli martial art of Krav Maga.[12]
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External links
- KTVU Channel-2 official web site and link to his KTVU mini-biography
- Frank's Facebook page
- Pages using infobox person with unknown parameters
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- Articles with hCards
- No local image but image on Wikidata
- 1958 births
- Living people
- American television news anchors
- Berkeley High School (Berkeley, California) alumni
- Journalists from California
- People from Berkeley, California
- People from Oakland, California
- People from San Luis Obispo, California
- American television reporters and correspondents
- San Francisco State University alumni
- Wikipedia requested photographs in California
