He also plays ice hockey in an adult league. He trains twice a week in Gracie Jujitsu, a Brazilian martial art. The Somerville home is filled with his abstract bright colored paintings and other artwork. The case of Gabby has sparked a national outcry as her fiancé Brian Laundrie continues. "Thank God she said yes!" he quipped later. FRANK Somerville has reportedly been pulled off the air at KTVU over his coverage of the Gabby Petito case. She was a producer there, and the results of this proposal-where Somerville got down on knee on air-were seen across the country. While there, he was named "Outstanding Broadcast Student." Despite that, Somerville has admitted "I never really distinguished myself at school." He proposed to his wife on the Phil Donahue show live, while he was anchoring Mornings on 2 in San Francisco. in Broadcast Communications Arts at San Francisco State. (Somerville is a devoted hockey player himself.) Somerville earned his B.A. He also won an Associated Press Award for Best Spot News for his coverage of a fire in downtown Providence, and an award for a Best Feature story about an 87-year-old hockey player. His half-hour special on the quake was nominated for an Emmy Award. 2021 Bay Area News Anchor Frank Somerville Arrested on DUI Suspicion in. Somerville reported live for several days, and later said it was the hardest work he'd ever done in his life. Randy Shandobil, a veteran KTVU reporter who left the station more than two. While in Rhode Island, WJAR sent him to San Francisco to cover the Loma Prieta earthquake. He received quite an enormous amount from working at KTVU as an anchor. Previously, he'd worked as an anchor-reporter at WJAR in Providence, R.I and at KFTY in Santa Rosa. The Berkeley native had been an intern at KTVU many years before. Frank Somerville co-anchors the weekday editions of "KTVU Channel 2 News at 5," "KTVU Channel 2 News at 6" and "The Ten O'Clock News on KTVU Channel 2." Somerville joined San Francisco's KTVU Channel 2's Mornings on 2 and The Noon News in January 1992.