Background
McEachern was born in Memphis, Tennessee, one of four children.
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He attended Redwood High School and played baseball while a student. He was teammates with Buddy Biancalana in his senior year and graduated in 1975. McEachern attended Santa Barbara City College and was a baseball teammate of future-MLB player Jesse Orosco.
He later attended the University of California, Santa Barbara and graduated in 1980 with a Bachelor of Arts in communications.
Career
He is known as the "voice of poker". His family later relocated to the San Francisco Bay Area and McEachern was raised in Corte Madera in Marin County until the age of 19. While enrolled at University of California Santa Barbara, he worked at the campus radio station KCSB-FM. Out of college, McEachern worked radio at KTMS, the former home of another UCSB graduate in Jim Rome, before entering the television industry with KCOY-television He moved back to the San Francisco Bay Area in the early 1990s to work at KGO-television and KPIX-television He also freelanced for Entertainment and Sports Programming Network, including covering play-by-play of the X Games.
By 2002, McEachern had left the television industry.
In 2002, Entertainment and Sports Programming Network reached out to McEachern, who was working as a mortgage banker at the time, to cover poker. He was brought back in 2003 alongside Norman Chad for the 2003 World Series of Poker.
McEachern continued as a mortgage banker for nearly five years, doing poker coverage for Entertainment and Sports Programming Network on the side. He"s covered every World Series of Poker event since Entertainment and Sports Programming Network acquired the broadcasting rights as of the 2002 WSOP.
