Greg Toland was the weekend sports anchor for ABC 7 News/ WJLA-TV

WJLA-TV

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. His dismissal was announced on January 23, 2009 due to financial constraints. He joined the ABC 7 Sports Department in October 2000. He has worked as a sports anchor for Fox

Fox Broadcasting Company

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 and CBS

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 Affiliates in other cities as well before coming to ABC 7. He reappeared as a sports anchor for WBAL-TV 11 [NBC] in Baltimore on September 1, 2010.

Specifically, Toland was the sports director at WBTW-TV, the CBS affiliate in Florence, South Carolina. In 1998, Greg was chosen South Carolina's sportscaster of the year. He also won the AP award for best sports story that year. Toland then became the weekend sports anchor at WPGH-TV

WPGH-TV

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, the FOX affiliate in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where he won the AP award for best sports story in Pennsylvania.

He graduated from the University of Maryland, College Park

University of Maryland, College Park

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 under Radio, Television, and Film in 1984.

Greg is a native of Ventnor, New Jersey. He and his wife Carolyn have two children, Beth and Ryan.