Rich began his near 40 year sportscasting career at the University of Connecticut as the WHUS-FM Radio play-by-play voice of UConn Football, Basketball and Baseball, 1971-74. Walcoff was also a news and sports reporter at WMMM-AM Westport, CT., KIKF-FM Orange, CA and KRLA-AM, Los Angeles before joining KMEL-FM, San Francisco in 1983.
Upon joining KGO Radio in 1984 Rich began a long association with the 49ers, spending almost twenty years as the team's pre and post game talk show host and sideline reporter. From 2005-2009 Walcoff was heard on KSFO-AM hosting the Raiders pre and postgame talk shows. In the 90's Walcoff was also heard on KGO as the radio voice of Cal Baketball and color analsyt for Cal Football. From 1997-99 Rich was the morning sports reporter for KGO-TV.
As KGO Radio's Sports Director, Rich can be heard weekdays on the KGO Morning News, as well as the fill-in host of the Saturday morning travel show, "On the Go with KGO"
Rich and his wife, Christina have two sons and live in Corte Madera.