Doug Bell (sportscaster)

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Doug Bell (born 1961) is a veteran sportscaster who works with WJOX-AM. [1]

He served as sports director for WIAT, a CBS affiliate. He joined WJOX-AM where he provides hourly sports reports from 9:00 AM to 3:00 PM. In the past two years, Bell was the weeknight host of College Sports Central on the now-defunct College Sports Southeast. He has also worked for ESPN and hosts The Tee Time Golf Show [2] on WVUA and WOTM and is a radio broadcaster for XM Sirius Radio. He has called games for the Alabama Crimson Tide, the NFL on Fox, NFL Europe for Fox, golf for SiriusXM PGA Tour Radio, PGA Tour Network, and college football and basketball for Fox Sports Net. He is divorced from his former wife Birmingham Brenda who is a newscaster for ABC 33/40. Doug now works with iTalkSEC as a Host along with Scott Moore on www.italksec.com or 101.1 in Birmingham Alabama [3]

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  2. "First Priority of Alabama - Tee Time Golf Tournament 2011". Archived from the original on 2013-12-12. Retrieved 2013-02-12.
  3. "Doug Bell - The Big Red Elephant". Archived from the original on 13 April 2013.