

On the Sunday of Memorial Day Weekend in 2021, Somerville went on air at 10 p.m. Somerville had been with the station since 1991.

Somerville took over the anchor desk from longtime KTVU fixture Dennis Richmond when Richmond retired in 2008. "I enjoy relaxing on the beaches along the Marin and Sonoma coasts and the trails up on Mt. "I love my 49ers and SF Giants, and heading up to Lake Tahoe," he writes. Mibach is married with two kids and he coaches youth sports. While he was born and raised in the Bay Area and his parents were both native San Franciscans, Mibach began his TV career as a photographer at WIBW in Topeka, Kansas, and then as a reporter and then anchor at KVOA in Tucson, Arizona, before being hired at KTVU in 2005. In his station bio, Mibach says he attended the University of Colorado at Boulder, where he studied broadcast journalism, and he was later accepted into the graduate program in journalism, which he graduated from in 2000. It’s an absolute honor to be trusted to deliver stories in a way that continues the legacy of journalistic excellence for which KTVU has always been known." KTVU news director Amber Eikel said in a release that Mibach is a "dedicated storyteller who cares deeply about the community and our role as journalists in the Bay Area."Īnd Mibach has now issued his own statement, saying, "KTVU has been a part of my life for nearly five decades from growing up in the Bay Area as a viewer, and for the last 17 years as a reporter and anchor. KGO (ABC 7) oftens beats out KTVU for its early evening newscasts. broadcasts - with KTVU's 10 O'Clock News long holding the title of the Bay Area's highest rated newscast. Mibach will be at the anchor desk for the channels 5 p.m., 6 p.m., 10 p.m., and 11 p.m. The Chronicle first reported the news, and the Marin Independent Journal reports that staffers at KTVU News were informed of Mibach's promotion in a Zoom meeting on Wednesday. And now, longtime KTVU anchor Mike Mibach, who's been anchoring Mornings on 2 for a number of years, will officially be the new weeknight anchor alongside Julie Haener starting next week, on May 2. It was clear when KTVU let Somerville's contract expire earlier this year that he had no future at the station. Following a strange year that included an on-camera slurring incident, an unexplained absence from the air, a backstage battle with a producer over racially biased coverage of missing-persons cases, and then a very public DUI incident, local anchorman Frank Somerville has been officially replaced at KTVU.
