![]() ![]() Days later, a spokesperson for Fox - the network that owns and operates KTVU - announced that Somerville would take an indefinite leave of absence to “focus on his health.” ![]() During a now-infamous May 30 newscast, he repeatedly slurred and stumbled over his words and appeared to have trouble reading off the teleprompter. It’s another strange twist in a turbulent year for Somerville. A station spokesperson could not be reached as of Friday evening, and Eikel declined to comment. Sources said that Somerville was informed by station management the next day that he was being suspended. There was no word on how heated the discussion got. The veteran anchor was told that the tagline was inappropriate and he apparently pushed back on it. Somerville is the adoptive father of a Black teen daughter. media often disproportionately covers tragedies involving young White women, while largely ignoring similar cases involving women of color and Indigenous people. Sources said he wanted to point out that the U.S. Somerville wanted to add a brief tagline at the end of the report that questioned the extraordinary level of media coverage devoted to the story. KTVU was prepared to air a news report detailing the latest developments in the case. The FBI has issued an arrest warrant for Brian Laundrie, Petito’s 23-year-old fiancé. Petito, 22, had been reported missing earlier this month while on a cross-country camping trip. The disagreement, said sources, occurred earlier in the week after the body of Petito was discovered in Wyoming. KTVU news anchor Frank Somerville again has been removed from the air, but this time a newsroom spat - not an on-air meltdown -appears to be the reason.Īccording to station sources, Somerville, 63, has been “suspended indefinitely” by Channel 2 management after a disagreement with news director Amber Eikel over coverage of the Gabby Petito homicide case. ![]()
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