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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Host Doug Doyle chats with Jane Fonda, Lily Tomlin, Rita Moreno and Sally Field about 80 For Brady and Harlan Jacobson has the latest from Sundance -
Host Doug Doyle chats with jazz pianist and radio host Judy Carmichael about her new book and Jon Kalish takes us to a sled dog camp
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Hollywood legends Rita Moreno, Jane Fonda, Sally Field and Lily Tomlin join SportsJam with Doug Doyle to talk about "80 For Brady"
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The next edition of Newark Today, hosted by Michael Hill, will be January 19 at 8pm here on wbgo.org
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Metropolitan Riveters forward Kelly Babstock joins SportsJam with Doug Doyle to talk about the "Mental Health Awareness" game
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On the January 14 edition of the WBGO Journal, we'll recap the State of the State speeches from Governors Murphy and Hochul, and host Doug Doyle chats with respected music historian and journalist Marc Myers about his new book Anatomy of 55 More Songs
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Singer-songwriter and musician Dan Modlin chats with WBGO's Doug Doyle about his latest single "Sara Gets a Second Chance"
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"Daybreak" host Gary Walker chats with trombonist and shellist Steve Turre. Turre's new album is titled "Generations" while Leo Sidran previews the 2023 Winter Jazzfest
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The next edition of WBGO's call-in show Ask Governor Murphy is January 11 at 7pm
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Respected journalist, author, music historian, and blogger Marc Myers chats with WBGO News Director Doug Doyle about his new book Anatomy of 55 More Songs: The Oral History of Top Hits that Changed Rock, Pop and Soul
