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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WBGO's Doug Doyle chats with Ngozi Anyanwu about her new play "The Monsters" -
WBGO's Doug Doyle chats with jazz pianist and composer Aaron Parks -
On the November 15 WBGO Journal, host Doug Doyle chats with jazz musicians Aaron Parks and Calvin Johnson -
On this edition of The Art of the Story, saxophonist Calvin Johnson talks about his Nov. 22 WBGO Kids Jazz Concert at Newark Museum of Art -
WBGO's Doug Doyle chats with The Apollo's EP Kamilah Forbes about the Nov. 15 open auditions at American Dream in East Rutherford, NJ -
WBGO's Doug Doyle chats with saxophonist, composer and actor Calvin Johnson about his much and upcoming WBGO Kids Jazz Series concert -
On this edition of The Art of the Story, Kamilah Forbes talks about Amateur Night at the Apollo open auditions at American Dream on Nov. 15 -
NJPAC announces its Coltrane centennial and jazz programming for 2026 -
On this episode of The Art of the Story, jazz pianist Aaron Parks talks about the inspiration for his new quartet album "By All Means" -
The next edition of "Ask Governor Murphy" is November 12 at 7pm
