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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On this episode of The Art of the Story from the WBGO Archive. The late NEA Jazz Master Quincy Jones spoke with legendary announcer Rhonda Hamilton in 2008 -
A preview of Bobby Sanabria's Multiverse Big Band performance at McCarter on October 4 -
On the September 27 WBGO Journal, a preview of Bobby Sanabria's Multiverse Big Band's McCarter performance of West Side Story Reimagined and much more
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On this edition of The Art of the Story from the WBGO Archive, Broadway star Anthony Rapp came to WBGO in 2009 to talk to Doug Doyle about the impact of the hit musical RENT -
WBGO's Doug Doyle chats with Broadway dancer, actor and author Ronald "Smokey" Stevens about his amazing career -
On this episode of The Art of Story, we preview Bobby Sanabria's Multiverse Big Band's West Side Story Reimagined at McCarter -
On this episode of The Art of the Story, WBGO's Dave Popkin chats with pianist Emmet Cohen following his set at the 2025 DC JazzFest -
On this episode of The Art of the Story from the WBGO Archive (2002) Jazz author Ashley Kahn provides his essay on John Coltrane's A Love Supreme album -
On this episode of The Art of the Story from the WBGO Archive, Ravi Coltrane and Christian McBride talk about Coltrane's Both Directions at Once: The Lost Album -
Milestones host Angélika Beener spoke with saxophonist Marcus Strickland in 2023 about John Coltrane's My Favorite Things
