When you think of local sports here in Columbia County up pops the name Jim Doyle. He is a local sports icon spending his entire career serving the sporting community of the Susquehanna Valley.

A 1968 graduate of Berwick High School and a 1972 graduate of Bloomsburg State College, now Bloomsburg University.

Jim started his career as a sportscaster on the Berwick AM station WBRX in 1967. Then in 1969 Jim made his move to the WHLM stations here in Bloomsburg where he has been a sports anchor ever since.

Jim Doyle a.k.a The Voice of Bloomsburg University football and men’s basketball is also the voice of area high school football and basketball.

Over the years there have been awards and honors. In 1993 Jim received PSAC’s George Heslip Media Award. In 1997 he was inducted into the Bloomsburg University Athletic Hall of Fame. In 1999 Jim was inducted into the Bernie Ramonoski Chapter of the Pennsylvania Sports Hall of Fame. Also in ’99, he was honored by being inducted into the Berwick Area Sports Hall of Fame.