Bob Barker: The Legendary TV PersonalityBorn on December 12, 1923, in Darrington, Washington, Bob Barker began out in home entertainment in 1950 with his own radio program. In 1972, he joined the TELEVISION game show Early LifeTv character, game show host, and animal rights activist. Born December 12, 1923, in Darrington, Washington. Barker's father passed away when he was very young- until he was in 8th grade, he coped with his mother, Matilda, a teacher, on the Rosebud Indian Reservation in Mission, South Dakota. When Matilda remarried, the family transferred to Springfield, Missouri.Barker graduated from senior high school in the early 1940s and went to Springfield's Drury College on a basketball scholarship. He left school in 1943 to train as a boxer pilot in the United States Naval Reserve, but World War II ended before he was provided an assignment for active duty. Barker came back to Drury and graduated in 1947 with a degree in economics. Barker's job at a radio station in Florida caused his step, in 1950, to California in order to pursue a career in broadcasting. He was offered his own radio program, The Bob Barker Show, which ran for the following 6 years from Burbank.In 1956, he was hired to host the daytime television version of the long-running radio quiz program, Fact and Outcome, on NBC. The program, which forced its participants to do bizarre stunts if they failed to answer a question within about one 2nd, was syndicated in 1966- Barker hold on as its host until 1974, when it was removed the air.The Price Is Right.Even prior to his run on Truth and Outcome ended, Barker had actually taken on the hosting tasks of an additional game show, The Rate Is Right, which since 1950 had aired on NBC and ABC before discovering a home, at the time of Barker's arrival in 1972, on CBS.
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