McDermott later worked as 6 p.m. anchor and won several awards as an investigative reporter at WJLA-TV in Washington, DC.
WMAL-TV, the call sign from 1947 to 1977 of WJLA-TV, a television station (channel 7) licensed to Washington, D.C., United States
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Since 1975, he has worked for WJLA-TV, Jefferson-Pilot and ESPN, where he is best known for his role as play-by-play announcer on the network's Sunday Night Football with Paul Maguire and Joe Theisman telecasts from 1987–2005.
In 2007 reporter Roberta Baskin of WJLA-TV in Washington, D.C. and her crew filmed the opening ceremony and operations at a newly-opening Small Smiles clinic in Langley Park, Maryland.
Previously, WTOP had used weather reports from WJLA chief meteorologist Doug Hill during morning and evening rush hours and The Weather Channel all other times.