Background
Somerville was born on March 19, 1958 in San Luis Obispo, California, but raised in Berkeley, California, Alameda County, United States of America.
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Frank Somerville
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He attended Berkeley High School and graduated in the class of 1976. He attended San Francisco State University.
Career
He anchors the five-o"clock, six-o"clock, and ten-o"clock news hours at TeleVision for YoU in Oakland, California. He was an intern at TeleVision for YoU 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. In 2013, Somerville apologized for an incident in which racist pilot names were read out in a broadcast on Asiana Airlines Flight 214.
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