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 Jon Kalish has the first part of his two-part report on the Jazz Society of Fairfield County -
On the March 7 WBGO Journal, a preview of Dominick Farinacci's 'Beyond The Lines: A 9/11 Story' and a chat with jazz pianist Charu Suri -
WBGO's Doug Doyle chats with trumpeter Dominick Farinacci, retired firefighter Bill Spade and U.S. Army veteran Jaymes Poling about the new musical production "Behind The Lines: A 9/11 Story" -
On the February 28 WBGO Journal, we get a preview of Let's Talk Women's Health & Wellness Symposium and host Doug Doyle chats Brandee Younger about MAM's fundraising concert -
Callie Brownson joins SportsJam with Doug Doyle to talk about how the NY Jets and the ECAC are launching a first of its kind and largest collegiate women’s flag football league -
On this edition of The Art of the Story, we preview MAM's African American Cultural Committee's "Art Meets Jazz" series which this year features the Brandee Younger Trio -
On this episode of The Art of the Story, founder Deborah Belfatto and Newark's FIrst Lady Linda Baraka talk about the 4th annual Let's Talk Women's Health & Wellness Symposium at NJPAC -
On this episode of The Art of the Story, bassist and singer-songwriter Antonio McLendon talks about his faith, the family's musical legacy and his amazing daughter Samara Joy -
On this episode of The Art of the Story, jazz pianist, composer and bandleader Charu Suri talks about her 2026 Grammy-nominated album "Shayan" -
On this episode of The Art of the Story, Nanny Assis and Bobby Sanabria talk about a special concert coming up at Dizzy's Club that celebrates the iconic sound of Antonio Carlos Jobim
