After college, Somers began hosting a news talk show on KNEW radio in Oakland.
[1] Somers also worked a public address announcer for the NBA's San Francisco Warriors.
[1] Over the next decade and a half he held other television sportscasting positions at KOVR in Sacramento, WXIA-TV in Atlanta and KNBC in Los Angeles.
While in Los Angeles, he also launched a sports talk program at KMPC radio.
During this time he conducted one of the last ever interviews with Mark Koenig, who was the last living member of the 1927 New York Yankees.
He later spent a few years co-hosting the 10am-1pm slot with WWOR-TV sports anchor Russ Salzberg.
"[2] At that time, Somers developed some of the quirks that have been hallmarks of his WFAN tenure, dropping catchphrases such as "schmoooooozing S-P-O-R-T-S" (spelling out the word "sports"), giving time checks in minutes and seconds, uniquely reading the end of the station's phone number as "six-six-six-six" rather than the standard "sixty six-sixty six", joking at the expense of engineer Eddie Scozzare ("THE Eddie Scozzare?"