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He believes that his automotive collision that happened the month before did not play a role, instead, he believes management had already decided to cut him loose months earlier. Somerville's suspension from KTVU would become permanent in January 2022 when his contract expired and KTVU would decide not to re-sign him. On December 30, 2021, Somerville was arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence after an automobile collision. In November 2021, he said in an interview with the Bay Area News Group that KTVU had not contacted him and that "All indications are that I’m never going to anchor at Channel 2 again." In September 2021, he was suspended for disobedience after seeking to keep a "tag" concerning domestic violence and " missing white woman syndrome" in a story on the Gabby Petito case. He returned to the anchor chair on August 4 without addressing the incident that saw his brief departure. In June 2021, Somerville took a personal leave of absence from KTVU following an on-air incident during which he struggled to read the script for several stories and appeared to slur his words. In 2013, Somerville apologized on behalf of KTVU on an incident in which racist pilot names were read out in a broadcast on Asiana Airlines Flight 214. newscasts, replacing 40-year veteran Dennis Richmond. In 2008, he was named co-anchor of the 6 p.m. He became co-anchor of the KTVU's morning news program in 1992, and was the first anchor of the 5 p.m. After graduation he worked at local stations in Santa Rosa, California Minneapolis, Minnesota and Providence, Rhode Island before returning to the Bay Area.
He was an intern at KTVU in 1981 while attending San Francisco State University. He was named after his father's childhood friend, Frank Patty, and his paternal grandfather, William Somerville. He attended San Francisco State University.
He attended Berkeley High School and graduated in the class of 1976. Somerville was born on March 19, 1958, in San Luis Obispo, California, but raised in Berkeley.