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Richard Wayne "Rich" Fields (born November 30, 1960) is a television meteorologist, host, spokesman, game show announcer, and successful voice-over artist. He is a graduate of the University of Florida (Broadcasting). In later years he would continue his studies at Mississippi State University (Meteorology). He is the record holder for announcing the most differently titled game shows in a single season (7 shows total) and has announced a total of 9 different game shows in his career.

Fields is also the recipient of the "Best Game Show Announcer" award given to him during the 2009 Game Show Awards in Beverly Hills, CA.

Early Life[]

Fields began as a radio host at WRUF in Gainesville, FL while a student in Broadcast Telecommunications at the University of Florida. He later worked at KUAD in Windsor CO, then a ten-year stint at CBS Radio in Los Angeles. Prior to his L.A. radio positions, Fields worked as an announcer at Universal Studios in Hollywood where he later became an Assistant Manager of Entertainment. He also performed announcing duties on Florida's lottery game show Flamingo Fortune a.k.a The Florida Lottery's/$MILLION$ Flamingo Fortune (1995-1999), filling in as host for at least one episode.

In 2000, he went back to school to study meteorology at Mississippi State University, and did his internship at WFLA-8 in Tampa while also working in local radio. In 2002, he returned to California as the staff meteorologist at Palm Springs' new CBS affiliate KPSP-2 and was promoted to Chief Meteorologist a short time later. During his time in Palm Springs, he hosted many high-profile events such as the Palm Springs Film Festival and was also host and moderator of the 1st annual Coachella Valley Academic Competition.

Career[]

Fields' most famous work was the announcer of The Price is Right from 2004-2010, a role which he repeatedly stated was his "dream job" after watching original announcer Johnny Olson. Fields had a huge fan following and according to statements from show former host Bob Barker, was certainly the most popular of the show's announcers. Shortly after being hired, the podium his predecessors worked from was disposed of; rather than see it destroyed, he retrieved the podium and put it on display in his home. He also handled hosting and announcing duties on the casino slot machine versions and the 2008 and 2010 video game versions of Price for the Nintendo Wii and DS gaming consoles. He was also the announcer and narrator for the 2006 summer series Game$how Marathon, also hosting a behind-the-scenes series for CBS.com.

Following Season 38, Fields and CBS parted ways who has now been replaced by George Gray since 2011. Despite this, he is the only announcer in TPIR's 50+ year history to have worked with both Bob Barker and Drew Carey.

Rich Fields Gone Wild[]

From 2009 until 2010, Fields had a web series called Rich Fields Gone Wild featuring Lou Ferrigno and the late Adam West where he gets into some wacky scenarios.

Current Life[]

After leaving The Price Is Right, Rich Fields was the announcer of the wildly popular game show "Wheel of Fortune" following the passing of longtime announcer Charlie O'Donnell. Rich voiced over 50 episodes of "Wheel" while producers conducted a permanent announcer search. Fields was extremely popular with Wheel fans and almost got the job. But as it turns out, Rich had accepted a Staff Meteorologist position with CBS News in Los Angeles, where he would go on to be one of L.A.'s top night-time meteorologists on both KCBS & KCAL9. At the same time, he was a frequent guest DJ on KRTH-FM (K-Earth 101). Rich Fields also worked as the announcer on Drew Carey's Improv-a-Ganza, which was taped in Las Vegas and ran on GSN in 2011. Fields was also a guest performer in the 23rd episode.

Rich Fields left Los Angeles television news in 2017 for retirement in his home town of Clearwater Beach, Florida. However, Beasley Broadcasting would coax Fields back into broadcasting by offering him the coveted Afternoon Drive slot (3-7pm) on Q105 in Tampa, Florida (a station that Rich Fields grew up listening to... and was the reason he got into broadcasting in the first place). Almost immediately after taking over the reins at Q105 Tampa, Fields became one of the market's top-rated air personalities. Covid 19 closures and lay-offs in 2020 forced Beasley Broadcasting to let go of most all of their on-air talent around the country (including Rich Fields in Tampa).

Beginning on November 1st. 2021, Fields had been working as a freelance meteorologist at the CBS affiliate in Tampa, Florida (WTSP 10 News) [1]

In February 2023, he announced that he was leaving Meteorology to become a Motivational Speaker. That same year, he released his first book titled Trust Your Inner GPS, which focuses on his life journey to becoming the announcer on The Price is Right.

Rich Fields has been married to his wife Christine since 2004... a celebration of which saw Bob Barker among the attendees.

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