I'm Done...

Yesterday, in FTVLive’s list of the Best and Worst stations to work at right now, we had Fox O&O KTVU pegged in the number 2 on our list of the Worst places to work.

Now long after we announced the San Francisco station in the deuce spot on the list, longtime KTVU Anchor Frank Sommerville announced that he is done at the station.

“All indications are that I’m never going to anchor at Channel 2 again,” the longtime anchor said in an interview with the Bay Area News Group. Somerville said he also wanted to apologize “to all the people in the station for all the drama” that ensued because of his suspension.

“All this drama isn’t good,” said Somerville, long a fixture of Bay Area TV news. “I wish I could apologize to all of them in person. They’re the backbone of Channel 2. I appreciate and admire what they do every day.”

Somerville was suspended after a newsroom incident in September in which he pushed to add a brief commentary on racial inequity to the end of a news story about the disappearance of social media influencer Gabby Petito, whose case had attracted a firestorm of media coverage.

“It makes me really sad, because I’ve given 31 years to the station,” Somerville said. “I helped make ‘Mornings on 2’ the No. 1 newscast in the market. I also helped make the noon and 5 p.m. newscasts No. 1.”

Somerville said he wants to continue anchoring the news at a local TV station, though he has nothing lined up.

“I still want to continue working,” said Somerville, who lives in the East Bay. “I would love to work at one of the other stations in the market. If not, I’ll go to other stations outside of the market.”