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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WBGO's Jon Kalish visits a Brooklyn neighborhood that's home to many Klezmer musicians -
On the June 3 edition of the WBGO Journal, George Benson talks about the start of his amazing career, a preview of the Jazz in June festival at McCarter Theatre and we hear from klezmer musicians in Brooklyn
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On the May 27 WBGO Journal, we celebrate the life of music of Tina Turner and Harlan Jacobson reviews the Cannes Film Festival
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On the May 20 edition of the WBGO Journal, legendary sports writer and author Jerry Izenberg talks about growing up in Newark in the 1930s
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NFL and Syracuse University great Jim Brown, who died May 18 at the age of 87, was a 2012 guest on SportsJam with Doug Doyle
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WBGO's Jon Kalish reports on the Mecha Sonic Sessions in Brooklyn which melds jazz, power tools, and pyrotechnics
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Black Health Matters founder and president Roslyn Young-Daniels chats with WBGO's Doug Doyle about the BHM Summit & Expo in Newark on May 20
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On the May 18 edition of Newark Today, Mayor Ras Baraka joins host Michael Hill to discuss strategic plan to address violence in the city
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WBGO News Director and host Doug Doyle looks back on his 25 years at the station.
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A preview of the Black Health Matters Summit in Newark and the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater's performances at NJPAC
