Background
He was born in Northern Ireland and lived at Helen"s Bay in County Down, then briefly moved to Spain. His father was a civil engineer
He was born in Northern Ireland and lived at Helen"s Bay in County Down, then briefly moved to Spain. His father was a civil engineer
He left Calday Grange Grammar School in 1979, which he attended with his two brothers, Michael and Clive.
He was one of the channel"s launch presenters in 1997, and is a published author He left the British Broadcasting Corporation on 28 May 2015. He moved to Heswall when he was 12.
He learnt to sail with the Fourth Heswall Sea Scouts, sailing at the West Kirby Marine Lake.
Newspapers From 1979-1983 he was at Wirral Newspapers. From 1983-1985 he was a freelance journalist in Cheshire.
Independent Television From 1989-1990 he worked at Central television as a journalist. Look North From 1990-1997 he was a reporter for Look North at Newcastle upon Tyne.
British Broadcasting Corporation News Eakin was most recently a presenter on British Broadcasting Corporation News.
He has anchored outside news broadcasts from locations including Belgrade, Belfast, Beirut, Buckingham Palace, Tavistock Square in London and numerous United Kingdom floods including in Cockermouth, Tewkesbury and Boscastle, Cornwall. He was the main on-site anchor for British Broadcasting Corporation News after the Glasgow Airport terror attack in 2007. Eakin left the British Broadcasting Corporation on 28 May 2015 with his final show running from 11am until 2pm.
A brief tribute was paid to the presenter who had been in the job for 18 years when robotic Camera number 4 moved into shot with the auto cue reading "Goodbye Chris xxxxxx", Cameras moving into shot with Eakin had been a regular occurrence since the British Broadcasting Corporation returned to New Broadcasting House in 2013.
