Doug Doyle
Director of News and Editorial Content, Morning News Anchor, Host of WBGO Journal and Host of SportsJam with Doug Doyle and The Art of the Story podcastsDoug Doyle has been News Director at WBGO since 1998. Since then, Doug and his news staff have received more than 300 awards from organizations like PRNDI (now PMJA), AP, New York Association of Black Journalists, Garden State Association of Black Journalists and the New Jersey Society of Professional Journalists.
The Pennsylvania State University graduate is one of the most decorated news reporters in New Jersey radio history. WBGO's popular sports podcast SportsJam with Doug Doyle has won numerous national and state awards for best interview and sports coverage. SportsJam recently won PMJA's 2025 Best Interview/Podcast program. SportsJam has also won Best Podcast from the NJSPJ in 2024 and 2025.
For more than 27 years, Doug really enjoys being the morning news anchor for Gary Walker's "Daybreak" on WBGO. Doug began his radio career at WMJY in Long Branch, NJ where he eventually became news director at the station known as Y107 at that time. The next stop was WOBM-FM in Toms River, NJ. Doug spent ten years there, seven of them as news director.
The Delmont, Pennsylvania native has also anchored sportscasts for WBBR, 1010 WINS and WABC.
Doyle hosts three podcasts for WBGO: WBGO Journal The Art of the Story SportsJam with Doug Doyle
Doug has taught radio production, writing, announcing, podcasting and sports classes at Bloomfield College, Rutgers-Newark University, Brookdale Community College, Ocean County College and Burlington County College.
He is an instrumental part of the Write On Sports program. In 2022, Doyle received the Literacy Champion Award from WOS.
Doug is a lifetime member of Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia, a professional music fraternity.
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WBGO's Doug Doyle chats with two-time Grammy Award-winning singer, pianist, bandleader and arranger Nicole Zuraitis about her new album "Live at Vic's Las Vegas" -
On the December 27 WBGO Journal, host Doug Doyle chats with Bernie Williams and Katia Lindor about their upcoming Carnegie Hall event -
On this episode of The Art of the Story, WBGO's Dave Popkin chats with blues singer and guitarist Eric Bibb -
New York Yankees legend and jazz guitarist Bernie Williams and violinist Katia Lindor are part of a special night of jazz, opera and sports at Carnegie Hall on January 13 -
On this episode of The Art of the Story from the WBGO Archive, Michael Bourne chats with legendary pianist Herbie Hancock -
On this episode of The Art of the Story from the WBGO Archive, Les McCann chats with Michael Bourne about 'Compared to What' and the Montreux Jazz Festival -
On this episode of The Art of the Story from the WBGO Archive, the late Lindy Hop legend Norma Miller shared her amazing Savoy Ballroom stories with "Daybreak" host Gary Walker -
On this episode of The Art of the Story, singer-songwriter Paula Cole speaks about being a groundbreaking female artist -
On the December 20 WBGO Journal, we hear from guitarist Thom Rotella, hear about an important klezmer collection and get Harlan Jacobson's best movies of 2025 -
WBGO's Jon Kalish reports on a crowd-sourced effort to revive lost klezmer tunes
