About
MJ Newsom is a play-by-play broadcaster with skills in multiple sports. He began his broadcasting journey as a sophomore in high school, when he joined the sports broadcasting club at Vestavia Hills High School in Vestavia Hills, AL, and was assigned the job to do public address announcing for the freshman football games. Since then, MJ has held multiple gigs both as a high school student and now as a college student in Los Angeles, CA.
MJ's Journey
During his sophomore year, MJ's play-by-play career began to take off. During the summer between his freshman and sophomore years at USC, MJ landed a job with the Pomona-Pitzer Sagehens, a Division III program in the Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (SCIAC). MJ was the voice of Sagehen football and Sagehen men's and women's basketball. He called the first conference championship season in the school's football history.
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Also in his sophomore year, MJ joined the broadcasting team at USC's student radio station, KXSC. With KXSC, he helped cover USC football, hosting pregame, halftime, and postgame shows, as well as serve as one of the play-by-play broadcasters for USC baseball.
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Now a senior, MJ has earned a spot as a play-by-play broadcaster for KXSC, calling football, basketball, and baseball games and continues to work for Pomona-Pitzer. He has also had the opportunity to call games on the Crimson Tide Sports Network, the radio network for the University of Alabama through Learfield.
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Also at USC, MJ serves as an on-air talent for a sports talk show, The Water Cooler, and has also spent time working in the control room, operating cameras, and producing shows for Annenberg TV News.
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In the summer of 2024, MJ went to Falmouth, Massachusetts to serve as a broadcaster for the Falmouth Commodores of the Cape Cod Baseball League. He lived in Colonial Heights, Virginia, serving as one of the broadcasters for the Tri City Chili Peppers of the Coastal Plains League during the summer of 2023.
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MJ's broadcasting career began at Vestavia Hills High School in Vestavia Hills, Alabama, where he spent two years as a play-by-play and color commentator for his high school's football team, along with women's basketball, softball, and soccer around playing basketball and baseball.
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When he's not behind the mic, MJ enjoys working out, hanging out with friends, playing his guitar, growing in his relationship with the Lord, and working to maintain good grades as a journalism major and legal studies minor.
