Reliable sources told the outlet that Somerville was informed by station management the following day that he was being suspended. The request was rejected by KTVU news director Amber Eikel, who said the tagline was unsuitable, according to the source. After the tagline was rejected, Somerville, who has an adopted black daughter, reportedly pushed back. Somerville wanted to include a tagline in a segment about the case to highlight the disparity in coverage of white women’s missing person cases versus women of color. On September 26, 2021, Sommerville was suspended following alleged internal turmoil over coverage on Gabby Petito, the 22-year-old woman who was killed while on a long-distance van trip with her boyfriend, Brian Laundrie. During his tenure of about four decades at KTVU, Somerville has won three Emmy awards for his work, including one for best on-camera news anchor. He began co-anchoring the evening shows in 2008, succeeding longtime local newscaster Dennis Richmond. He later joined full-time in 1991, becoming a co-anchor of the station’s morning news program in 1992. Somerville has been associated with KTVU since 1981 when he first joined the station as an intern while attending San Francisco State University. He has accumulated his fortunes through his primary source of income as a broadcast journalist at KTVU and also in businesses he has invested in. Somerville‘s net worth is estimated to be $2 Million as of 2021. This is according to “reliable 415 Media source” the information that was provided by Rich Lieberman in 2019 stating the highest-paid journalists in the Bay Area. Somerville earns an average annual salary of $615,000.
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