Doug Doyle
News Director, Morning News Anchor, Co-Host of WBGO Journal & Host of SportsJamDoug Doyle has been News Director at WBGO since 1998 and has taken his department to new heights in coverage and recognition. Doug and his staff have received more than 200 awards from organizations like PRNDI, 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. You can hear all the shows at wbgo.org/sportsjam, on iTunes and NPR's list of podcasts.
For more than 22 years, Doug really enjoys his role as a side-kick for Gary Walker's morning show on WBGO. Gary and Doug's rapport and mix of great music, information and humor has attracted many new listeners to the station through the years. Doug began his radio career at WMJY in Long Branch, New Jersey where he eventually became news director at the station known as Y107 at that time. The next stop was WOBM-FM in Toms River, New Jersey. 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.
Doug has taught radio production, writing, announcing 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 the area being a guest speaker at many of the summer camps. Doyle is a lifetime member of Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia, a professional music fraternity. Doug's daughter Casey is currently a special education teacher in the Neptune School District. She spent her first two years as an educator teaching inclusive fifth grade math and science at Oliver Street School in Newark.
Doug and his friends are also part of a band that performs at various charity events in the area like "Rock Hunger" in Nutley, NJ and "Newark Porchfest".
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On this edition of the WBGO Journal, New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy comments on the passing of former Governor Jim Florio, a chat with "The Budgetnista", and Leo Sidran profiles bassist Michael Thurber -
New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy joins host Nancy Solomon in the WBGO studios for the next edition of Ask Governor Murphy on September 27 at 7pm
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Rev. Dr. William Barber: Tens of millions of low wage voters will spark a "moral resurrection"
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A preview of the Exit Zero Jazz Festival and Harlan Jacobson reviews "The Fabelmans"
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We'll hear about the Bobby Sanabria and David Amram's tribute to Jack Kerouac and then Grammy Award-winning producer Carl Griffin remembers Ramsey Lewis
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As part of the Village Trip Festival, acclaimed musician, composer and arranger David Amram teams up with percussionist, bandleader, filmmaker and WBGO host Bobby Sanabria for a concert at Joe's Pub on September 16 to celebrate the centennial anniversary of the birth of legendary novelist Jack Kerouac
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The next edition of WBGO's call-in program Newark Today is this Thursday, September 15 at 8pm on the WBGO website
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In WBGO's Art of the Story feature, Daybreak host Gary Walker talks about how the late legendary pianist Ramsey Lewis was also a great jazz broadcaster
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WBGO's Doug Doyle chats with Janis Burley Wilson, CEO/President of the August Wilson African American Cultural Center and jazz singer Vanisha Gould about the 12th annual Pittsburgh International Jazz Festival
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On the September 10th edition of the WBGO Journal, we get an update on some changes for the new school year in New York City and New Jersey, WBGO's Jon Kalish reports on the resurgence of community bands and host Doug Doyle chats with two-time AUDL MVP Ben Jagt of the champion New York Empire
