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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Washington Post features reporter Travis M. Andrews is out with a new book "Because He's Jeff Goldblum: The Movies, Memes and Meaning of Hollywood's Most Enigmatic Actor" -
Newark Symphony Hall's company-in-residence, Yendor Theatre Company, presents Richard Wesley's "Black Terror"
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Newark Symphony Hall's company-in-residence, Yendor Theatre Company, presents Richard Wesley's "Black Terror"
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RUST is the third documentary in Marylou and Jerome Bongiorno's 3Rs Trilogy on Urban America
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The April edition of "Ask Governor Murphy" is this evening (April 28) at 7pm on WBGO
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Former MLB Centerfielder, current baseball analyst, writer and author Doug Glanville joins SportsJam to talk about this new show on the Marquee Sports Network "Class Is In Session with Doug Doyle"
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Bloomfield College President Dr. Marcheta Evans chats with WBGO News Director Doug Doyle about the Derek Chauvin guilty verdict, lessons learned regarding virtual classes and plans for graduation on campus
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WBGO's Alexandra Hill moderates a VACCINE Q and A panel with several area doctors
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Law enforcement and basketball come together in this latest edition of SportsJam as host Doug Doyle is joined by JUCO Hall of Fame Basketball Coach and Retired Federal Agent Bob Starkman and and legendary former FBI Agent Joseph D. Pistone (Donnie Brasco).
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WBGO's Doug Doyle chats with two of the headliners of a two-day symposium titled "Creating Change: Moving Toward Equity, Justice and Anti-Racism in the New Jersey Arts Community
