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, WBGO's Doug Doyle takes us to The Stone Pony in Asbury Park for a stop of Michelle Branch's "Everywhere and Back Again" tour -
Award-winning storytellers and veteran amateur golfers Ross and Michael Greenburg join SportsJam with Doug Doyle to talk about their new book "Golf's Ultimate Guide To Respectable Cheating" -
WBGO's Doug Doyle chats with Louis Armstrong House Museum Executive Director Regina Bain about curating the new "Armstrong in Ghana" exhibit in Corona, Queens -
On the November 7 WBGO Journal, host Doug Doyle chats with Louis Armstrong House Museum Executive Director Regina Bain about curating the "Armstrong in Ghana" exhibit and we'll recap the midterm elections in NJ and NY -
WBGO's Doug Doyle chats with legendary actress, comedian and singer Vicki Lawrence about her two-woman show that comes to George Street Playhouse Nov. 13 and 14 -
On this episode of The Art of the Story, WBGO's Doug Doyle previews a special concert this Saturday, November 14 at the Newark Museum of Art featuring vocalist Catherine Russell -
The latest guest on SportsJam with Doug Doyle is SLAM chairman and visionary entrepreneur Peter Robert Casey who has created a new book "Buckets List: 64 Iconic College Basketball Experiences" -
WBGO's Jon Kalish reports on how Holocaust survivors became chicken farmers in South Jersey -
WBGO's Doug Doyle reports Democrats had a big night in the midterm elections in New Jersey and New York -
On the October 31 WBGO Journal, NJ Governor Mikie Sherrill gives her thoughts on the midterm elections and we'll hear how former professional basketball player Jared Armstrong is continuing his mission to combat racism and hate
