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-TV.[7] He moved back to the San Francisco Bay Area in the early 1990s to work at KGO-TV and KPIX-TV.[6] He also freelanced for ESPN, including covering play-by-play of the X Games.[5][6][7] By 2002, McEachern had left the television industry.[1][5]
In 2002, ESPN reached out to McEachern, who was working as a mortgage banker at the time, to cover poker.[1][5][6] He was brought back in 2003 alongside Norman Chad for the 2003 World Series of Poker.[1][5][6] The tournament was won by Chris Moneymaker and led to the Moneymaker effect and a corresponding surge in poker's popularity.[8] McEachern continued as a mortgage banker for nearly five years, doing poker coverage for ESPN on the side.[5] As of 2017, he has covered every World Series of Poker main event since ESPN acquired the broadcasting rights.
In 2007 McEachern was the commentator for Pride 33 along with fighters Frank Trigg and Josh Barnett.
Personal life
McEachern married Carol Czyzewski, a fellow UC Santa Barbara alumna, in 1981 and has two children.[9][10] His nephew, Matthew Wood, is a sound engineer for Skywalker Sound and has worked on numerous Star Wars films.[11]
