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 the April 25 WBGO Journal, a chat with author Eileen Bellew about her powerful new memoir "After John Jumped" and we meet the architects of Jersey Devil -
WBGO's Jon Kailsh reports on how three Princeton-trained architects have made waves in the design/build movement -
NBA legend Muggsy Bogues joins SportsJam with Doug Doyle to talk about being the owner/GM of the Baltimore team in Tracy McGrady's OBL -
The fourth annual Jersey City Marathon and Half Marathon set a participant record -
On the April 18 WBGO Journal, Governor Mikie Sherrill's plan to deal with the traffic nightmare at the upcoming World Cup matches in NJ and we continue to celebrate Jazz Appreciation Month -
WBGO's Jon Kalish has the first of a two-part special on the Jersey Devil -
The next edition of "Newark Today", hosted by Michael Hill, streams here tonight (April 16) at 8pm -
WBGO's new call-in show "Ask Governor Sherrill" is now available here -
WBGO's Jon Kalish previews a special Lower East Side concert featuring Klezmer and Carnatic violinists -
On the April 11 WBGO Journal, we celebrate Jazz Appreciation Month with archived interviews with Lady Gaga, Maria Schnieider and Mercedes Ellington
