Bob Hilton is a prolific American television game show personality. Although known mainly for his role as announcer, he holds three hosting credits as well: The Guinness Game, Truth or Consequences, the 1990 revival of Let's Make a Deal. His announcing credits include primarily substitute jobs on Goodson-Todman game shows, such as Card Sharks, Child's Play, Trivia Trap, The $25,000 Pyramid, Blockbusters, That's My Line and Body Language. Bob announced for a pilot for a celebrity version of Double Dare with Bruce Jenner as host, but it was not picked up. His first game show announcing assignment was in 1980 on The Joker's Wild.
He briefly announced The Price Is Right following the death of its original announcer, Johnny Olson, but was unable to accept the job on a full-time basis due to a previous announcing engagement (at the time, Hilton was announcing on The Newlywed Game as well as splitting duties with Gene Wood on Body Language after Olson's death). He also announced the pilot for the syndicated New Price Is Right in 1994 (Burton Richardson announced the rest of the series) and was also offered an audition after Rod Roddy died, but declined (the job went to Rich Fields).
He got his start in Louisiana at station KPLC. He traveled around to various stations, such as in Honolulu, Hawaii, where he started as a reporter and got into anchoring. Then he moved to Houston, Texas, where he hosted a talk show. Then it was Boston, Massachusetts, where he hosted another talk show and a prime time show called New England Experience, which was an Emmy winner. And then on to Los Angeles where he hosted another talk show and became involved in his other ventures. From 1993 through 1996 he was the lead anchor at KGAN in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. He then went to KOVR in Sacramento, California.
Hilton and his wife, Joni, have four children, Richie, Brandon, Cassidy and Nicole.
Hilton is now retired from show business and has started a cleaning products company called Holy Cow.
Co-host of "Dialing for Dollars" on Houston, Texas ABC affiliate KTRK-TV during the 1960s.
