Kevin Eschenfelder Bio, Age, Family, Wife, Net Worth, Salary

Kevin Eschenfelder Biography

Kevin Eschenfelder is an American sportscaster currently serving on AT&T SportsNet Southwest as a host of “Houston Basketball Central.” He also works in radio as the play-by-play announcer for Houston Cougars football games since their start in the American Athletic Conference in 2013.

Kevin, a native Houstonian has been a fixture on the Texas sports scene for over 26 years. He’s hosted shows for both Texas MLB teams and all three NBA teams but his primary focus has been the Houston franchises. In 1997, Kevin began hosting pre and postgames show for the Houston Astros and Rockets. Those shows aired on Fox Sports Southwest, Fox Sports Houston, and Comcast Sportsnet. He’s also an accomplished Play-By-Play Announcer who has called Big Twelve football, basketball and baseball games plus filled in for Houston Astros and Dallas Mavericks games.

Kevin Eschenfelder Education

Eschenfelder attended Alvin Community College where he worked on KACC (the on-campus radio station for ACC) as the speech announcer for Alvin High School sporting events. Just before graduating from Alvin Community College, Eschenfelder was working by Houston Baptist University (a NCAA Division I program at the time) as a play-by-play announcer at HSE. Eschenfelder’s first Home Sports Entertainment event was a basketball game with Greg Lucas at the Houston Baptist University in 1987. In 1990, Eschenfelder graduated from the University of Houston–Clear Lake with a bachelor’s degree.

Kevin Eschenfelder Career

Kevin joined Home Sports Entertainment (later known as Fox Sports Net) full-time in June 1991 and worked on pre- and postgame shows for 17 seasons, including stints in Dallas-Fort Worth and his pre- and postgame assignments included coverage by the NBA teams of Dallas Mavericks, Houston Rockets and San Antonio Spurs as well as the NHL team of Dallas Stars.

He hosted shows for the Houston Astros and Texas Rangers during the baseball season and said his favorite memory with HSE / Prime Sports / FSN was Game 6 of the 2005 National League Championship Series when the Astros clinched their first and, so far, pennant.

He became known to Houston viewers during Rockets and Astros games as the in-studio host for “Club House,” a pre-game show that later evolved Southwest Sports Tonight was a half-hour show on FSN Southwest and its Houston affiliate, FSN Houston, but it also complemented its regional news program, the non-event “Southwest Sports News.”

His additional contributions include calling college football and basketball play-by-play for the Southland Conference, Southwest Conference, Big 12 Conference, and WAC. Eschenfelder also worked for Dallas Mavericks games with Fox Sports Southwest as a fill-in analyst during Astros telecasts and fill-in play-by-play voice. On September 20, 2012, Eschenfelder said farewell to viewers on an Astros telecast. His last day was September 21, 2012, with the station.

Eschenfelder bid farewell to viewers over an Astros telecast on September 20, 2012. His final day with the station was September 21, 2012.

He then joined CSN Houston when it began broadcasting in October 2012, continuing as the face that fans of the Rockets and Astros have seen before and after games. He is the host of every weekday’s “SportsTalk Live,” the one-hour live show of the network.
Once a month, SportsTalk Live has aired a special Friday version entitled “SportsTalk Live Friday Tailgate Version,” which is filmed outside CSN Houston’s downtown studio next to the House of Blues in front of a live audience. Eschefelder interviewed Rockets players James Harden, Chandler Parsons, Patrick Beverley, Isaiah Canaan, and Rockets in the October 2013 version.

Besides his involvement in STL, Eschenfelder took part in another specialty programming on CSN Houston. As part of the “A Conversation With…” series, Eschenfelder had an exclusive interview with Milo Hamilton, former announcer Astros and winner of the Ford Frick Award. The interview aired throughout September 2013.

Kevin Eschenfelder Age

Kevin has not disclosed his birthdate to social media hence makes it difficult to know his age for now. But from his career, we can guess he is either in his late fifties.

Kevin Eschenfelder Family

When Eschenfelder was in elementary school, his father worked as a statistician and spotter for the Houston Oilers, giving him access to the radio press box at the Astrodome. At the age of 15, he began helping his dad keep statistics for the Houston Astros and Houston Oilers.

Kevin Eschenfelder Wife

Kevin is a married man. However, he has not disclosed more of his personal details to the media.

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Kevin Eschenfelder Salary

However, his exact salary has not yet been revealed but the information will be updated as soon as it is available.

Kevin Eschenfelder Net Worth

The award-winning journalist, Eschenfelder, has an estimated net worth of $ 11 million which he has earned through his successful career as a journalist or reporter or any other.

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