Lonnie King

Lonnie King is an independent broadcasting contractor and freelance writer who recently completed a decade of serving as the play-by-play voice for Houston Baptist University (now Houston Christian University) football and men's basketball. He also served as the play-by-play voice for HBU women’s basketball during Southland Conference league games.

Since 2021, he has worked for Learfield Sports and the athletic departments of the University of Houston and Rice University, covering women’s basketball for both schools and also broadcasting baseball games for the UH Cougars. Additionally, he has provided play-by-play for various college volleyball matches and high school football games in the Houston area.

Over the years, Lonnie has also done work for regional broadcast organizations such as Legacy Sports Network, Texas Sports Radio Network and FloSports. He has also worked with leading broadcast production company L2 Productions to provide on-air broadcast services for their video broadcasts for ESPN+.

Lonnie has also written about the people and teams that make up the local sports scene in the Houston area, as well as penning 'daytrip' travel pieces for local readers. In addition to covering high school sports for a decade, he also covered the minor league baseball Sugar Land Skeeters for their first two seasons.

He has been covering Houston-area sports for more than two decades.

Prior to working with HBU, Lonnie provided play-by-play for LSN’s production of high school football broadcasts on Comcast Sportsnet Houston. He also worked LSN productions of HBU, San Jacinto College and high school sports for Fox Sports Houston and Fox Sports Southwest.

Additionally, Lonnie has also previously done on-air work for:

• UIL Radio state basketball and baseball tournament broadcasts

• ISP/IMG (now Learfield) on their Notre Dame University baseball and University of Washington women’s basketball broadcasts.

• Learfield Sports on their Texas State Bobcats men's basketball property.

• NFHS high school basketball broadcasts.

• LHSAA state baseball tournament broadcasts.

Outside the realm of sports, he has done on-air work for various radio stations across the country, providing weather updates while working for the Radio Forecast Network.

Lonnie holds a Bachelor of Arts in Journalism/Mass Communication from the University of Arizona Global Campus, but his educational journey has also carried him through Texas A&M University and Arlington Baptist College. 

Away from the microphone, he is the proud father to four children, a daughter-in-law and granddaughter Aviva. He has been married to his beautiful wife Dawn for 35 years. 

When time and schedules allow, he and Dawn enjoy daytripping around the state of Texas, imitating Chip and Joanna Gaines as would-be fixer-uppers and also tackling woodworking projects around the house, utilizing repurposed and recycled wood.