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 June 6 WBGO Journal, we have interviews with poet Kevin Powell, members of the Dirty Dozen Brass Band and the host of the Ganja Granny podcast -
WBGO's Jon Kalish reports on Karen Michel's "Ganja Granny" podcast -
WBGO's Doug Doyle chats with Dirty Dozen Brass Band members Roger Lewis and Traverri Huff-Boone about the legendary band's performances at the Blue Note Jazz Festival June 8-10 -
WBGO's call-in show "Ask Governor Sherrill" streams here tonight at 7pm -
WBGO's Doug Doyle reports on the passing of two-time Grammy Award-winning R & B singer Peabo Bryson -
On the May 30 WBGO Journal, Protests escalate at Delaney Hall, the battle of AI data centers in NJ and a look a Skyview Acres -
WBGO's Jon Kalish reports on the unique community of Skyview Acres in Pomona, NY -
FANZO's CEO and co-founder Leo MacLehose joins SportsJam with Doug Doyle to talk about his sports tech platform that's now available in North America and in time for the FIFA World Cup -
On this episode of The Art of the Story, WBGO's Doug Doyle reports on the death of the great jazz saxophonist Sonny Rollins -
On the May 23 WBGO Journal, we hear about Wounded Warrior Project's Soldier Ride 250, a chat with U.S. Senator Cory Booker and Harlan Jacobson's review of the 79th Cannes Film Festival
