Walcoff's sports reports are heard each weekday during the KGO Morning News. Walcoff was a key player on KGO’s “Voice of the Niners” broadcast team. He was the lead anchor in the 49ers pre-game program and the solo anchor of the post-game 49er talk show. The Associated Press recognized him and the rest of the KGO/49ers broadcast team in 1994 with an award for Best Play-By-Play Reporting of Sports. Rich has also been heard on KGO as a play by play announcer for Cal basketball and a color analyst for Cal football.

Walcoff began his sports career in 1971 while attending the University of Connecticut; he was the play-by-play voice of U Conn Huskies basketball, baseball and football games. Upon graduation in 1974, he went to WMMM in Westport, Connecticut as a news and sports reporter and in 1979 moved to KORJ in Orange, California in the same capacity. In 1981, Rich was lured to KRLA in Los Angeles as news and sports reporter and also became play-by-play announcer for U.C. Irvine basketball.

In 1983, Walcoff moved to the Bay Area as news and sports director at KMEL-FM where he worked until joining KGO Radio. Walcoff also joined the ABC 7 TV Morning News team from 1996 to 1999 where he reported three times a day on the ABC 7 TV Morning News.

Walcoff, who holds a bachelor’s degree in political science and communications from the University of Connecticut, is a native of Long Island, New York. He and his wife and two sons live in Corte Madera, California.