Rich Fields
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Rich Fields (born November 30, 1960, in Bay Village, Ohio), is an Emmy award winning broadcaster and meteorologist best known for being the announcer of the American television game show The Price Is Right since April 4, 2004.
Fields was raised in Avon, Ohio, before moving to Clearwater, Florida, in 1976. He graduated from the University of Florida in 1983 with a degree in broadcasting and had a career as a radio personality, including a ten year stint in Tampa, FL and another ten year stay at KCBS-FM in Los Angeles. He also worked as a show host and announcer for several years at Universal Studios in Hollywood. Fields is a well-known voice-over talent and has done hundreds of television and radio commercials. In 1995, Rich became the announcer for the Florida Lottery's Flamingo Fortune. Fields held that position for three seasons.
In addition to appearing on both the daytime and primetime versions of Price, Fields has also made appearances on other television shows, including Gameshow Marathon, Extra, Inside Edition, The Insider, the CBS Evening News, The Tyra Banks Show, The Late Late Show, and many others.
In early 2000, Fields returned to college to study meteorology and become a television weatherman. After a lengthly internship at weather hot-spot WFLA-TV in Tampa, Florida, Fields was offered the morning weather position at CBS affiliate KPSP-LP in Palm Springs, California. After a few months, Fields was promoted to Chief Meteorologist for KPSP. He worked at KPSP as a weather man from August 2002 to May 2004. Fields holds the Seal of Approval from the American Meteorological Society.
In March of 2004 Fields auditioned for the announcing role on The Price Is Right that was vacated by the death of Rod Roddy. He was named the show's permanent announcer on April 4, 2004, and host Bob Barker introduced him to the show's viewers on the April 27 episode. On his website, Fields notes that the inspiration to his broadcasting career came from listening to original Price announcer Johnny Olson while growing up outside of Cleveland, Ohio.
According to game show historian Fred Wostbrock, co-author of "The Encyclopedia of TV Game Shows", because of his work on Gameshow Marathon in 2006, Fields now holds the world record for announcing the most different-titled game shows (seven) in a single year.
In 2006 he appeared in the FOX sitcom The War at Home as an energetic game show host and on the ABC comedy According to Jim. Fields also co-hosted Santa Salutes the Stars, the 2006 Orlando Christmas Parade with Alan Thicke and Patrika Darbo. The parade aired nationally on Superstation WGN.
