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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Public outcry over conditions at Delaney Hall and a chat with Force MD's about their Sony Hall eventOn the August 8 WBGO Journal, public outcry over conditions at Delaney Hall and a chat with Force MD's about their Sony Hall event -
WBGO's Doug Doyle chats with current Force MD's members Stevie D. Lundy, Khalil Lundy and Zieme Capers about their upcoming Sony Hall event -
WBGO's Doug Doyle chats with legendary songwriter and producer David Porter about his new memoir "The Soul Man" -
WBGO's Doug Doyle reports on the passing of New Jersey jazz singer Jeanie Bryson -
WBGO's Jon Kalish has the story of Lower East Side restaurateur & cymbalom virtuoso Joseph Moskowitz -
On the July 25 WBGO Journal, we get a preview of the Montclair Jazz Festival with Jazz House Kids President and founder Melissa Walker and Governor Sherrill signs the Fair Price Protection Act -
WBGO's Doug Doyle chats with legendary songwriter and producer David Porter about his new memoir -
WBGO's Doug Doyle chats with powerhouse drummer Cindy Blackman Santana about her new album "Coherence" and how working with jazz greats has changed her life -
Drummer Cindy Blackman Santana chats with WBGO's Doug Doyle about her upcoming "Jazz at the Bandshell" concert and her new album "Coherence" -
WBGO's Doug Doyle chats with filmmakers Nance Ackerman and Kavery Kaul as their powerful films will be screened at WIM-Newark's Women's International Film Festival
