Dan O'Toole is a Canadian television sports anchor

News presenter

A news presenter is a person who presents news during a news program in the format of a television show, on the radio or the Internet.News presenters can work in a radio studio, television studio and from remote broadcasts in the field especially weather...

 for TSN

The Sports Network

The Sports Network, commonly abbreviated as TSN, is a Canadian English language Category C specialty channel and is Canada's leading English language sports TV channel. TSN premiered in 1984, in the first group of Canadian specialty cable channels...

. Since 2003, he has co-hosted the 2:00 AM (ET

Eastern Time Zone

The Eastern Time Zone of the United States and Canada is a time zone that falls mostly along the east coast of North America. Its UTC time offset is −5 hrs during standard time and −4 hrs during daylight saving time...

) weekday broadcast of SportsCentre

SportsCentre

SportsCentre is a sports news program airing on the Canadian network TSN. As TSN's flagship program, it airs several times daily, and beginning in the 2008 season it also began to be aired on sister network CTV as its post-game program for early NFL games....

, alongside Jay Onrait

Jay Onrait

Jay Michael Onrait is a Canadian television personality. He is the co-host, along with Dan O'Toole, for the late night broadcast of Sportscentre.-Personal:Onrait is a native of Athabasca, Alberta....

.

Biography

O'Toole attended St. Peter's Secondary School

St. Peter's Secondary School (Peterborough)

St. Peter's Secondary School is an urban high school located in Peterborough, Ontario. The school is administered by the Peterborough Victoria Northumberland and Clarington Catholic District School Board. The school is built for 1400 students from Grade 9 to 12. As of 2006, the school is run by...

 in Peterborough, Ontario

Peterborough, Ontario

Peterborough is a city on the Otonabee River in southern Ontario, Canada, 125 kilometres northeast of Toronto. The population of the City of Peterborough was 74,898 as of the 2006 census, while the census metropolitan area has a population of 121,428 as of a 2009 estimate. It presently ranks...

. He graduated from Algonquin College

Algonquin College

Algonquin College of Applied Arts and Technology is a publicly funded English-language college and member of Polytechnics Canada located in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. The college serves the National Capital Region and the outlying areas of Eastern Ontario and Western Quebec...

 in 1996 with a diploma

Diploma

A diploma is a certificate or deed issued by an educational institution, such as a university, that testifies that the recipient has successfully completed a particular course of study or confers an academic degree. In countries such as the United Kingdom and Australia, the word diploma refers to...

 in radio broadcasting.

Broadcasting career

Since 2003, O'Toole has co-hosted the 2:00 AM (ET

Eastern Time Zone

The Eastern Time Zone of the United States and Canada is a time zone that falls mostly along the east coast of North America. Its UTC time offset is −5 hrs during standard time and −4 hrs during daylight saving time...

) weekday broadcast of SportsCentre

SportsCentre

SportsCentre is a sports news program airing on the Canadian network TSN. As TSN's flagship program, it airs several times daily, and beginning in the 2008 season it also began to be aired on sister network CTV as its post-game program for early NFL games....

 alongside Jay Onrait

Jay Onrait

Jay Michael Onrait is a Canadian television personality. He is the co-host, along with Dan O'Toole, for the late night broadcast of Sportscentre.-Personal:Onrait is a native of Athabasca, Alberta....

.

O'Toole previously worked as a news anchor at Citytv Vancouver and moved to Vancouver

Vancouver

Vancouver is a coastal seaport city on the mainland of British Columbia, Canada. It is the hub of Greater Vancouver, which, with over 2.3 million residents, is the third most populous metropolitan area in the country,...

 in 1997 where he worked as a traffic reporter for CJJR-FM

CJJR-FM

CJJR-FM is a radio station in the Greater Vancouver region of British Columbia. It broadcasts at 93.7 MHz on the FM band with an effective radiated power of 75,000 watts from a transmitter on Mount Seymour in the District of North Vancouver. Studios are located at suite #300-1401 W. 8th Ave...

 and CFUN-AM.

He moved to Fort McMurray, Alberta

Fort McMurray, Alberta

Fort McMurray is an urban service area in the Regional Municipality of Wood Buffalo in Alberta, Canada. It was previously incorporated as a city on September 1, 1980. It became an urban service area when it amalgamated with Improvement District No. 143 on April 1, 1995 to create the Municipality...

 in 1998 where he worked as a sports director

Sports Director

A sports director is an individual at a television or radio station who is in charge of the sports department. In local news, the sports director is typically the station's primary sportscaster, and often anchors the primetime newscasts on weekdays. They are in charge of sports programming and...

 for CJOK-FM

CJOK-FM

CJOK-FM is a 24-hour FM stereo radio station serving Fort McMurray, Alberta with a country music format. The station broadcasts at 93.3 MHz....

 and CKYX-FM

CKYX-FM

CKYX-FM is a 24-hour FM stereo radio station serving Fort McMurray, Alberta with an active rock format. The station received approval by the CRTC in 1984 to broadcast at 97.9 MHz.CKYX also has a rebroadcaster on Tar Island.-External links:*...

 for three years. While there, O'Toole called play-by-play for the Fort McMurray Oil Barons

Fort McMurray Oil Barons

The Fort McMurray Oil Barons are an ice hockey team in the Alberta Junior Hockey League. They play in Fort McMurray, Alberta, Canada at the Thickwood Heights Arena, capacity 2300....

 of the AJHL

Alberta Junior Hockey League

The Alberta Junior Hockey League is an Alberta-based Junior A hockey league that belongs to the Canadian Junior Hockey League . It was formed as a five-team league in 1964. There are currently 16 teams in the league. The regular season league champions receive the Dave Duchak Trophy...

. He then worked for CTV Edmonton as the Fort McMurray evening news reporter.

External links

• Dan O'Toole on TSN
  The Sports Network
  The Sports Network, commonly abbreviated as TSN, is a Canadian English language Category C specialty channel and is Canada's leading English language sports TV channel. TSN premiered in 1984, in the first group of Canadian specialty cable channels...