Bob Barker (The Price is Right) is retiring after 50 years on TV

[Herman Munster]

http://people.aol.com/people/article/0,26334,1552931,00.html

The Price Is Right host Bob Barker is retiring after 50 years on television, he announced Tuesday.

"I will be 83 years old on Dec. 12," he told the Associated Press, "and I've decided to retire while I'm still young."

The TV icon, who has hosted CBS's The Price Is Right for 35 years, will step down in June.

"I've gone on and on and on to this ancient age because I've enjoyed it," he said. "I've thoroughly enjoyed it and I'm going to miss it."

CBS president and CEO Leslie Moonves called Barker's contribution to the network "immeasurable."

But the show was getting to be too much for Barker. "I'm just reaching the age where the constant effort to be there and do the show physically is a lot for me," he said. "I might be able to do the show another year, but better (to leave) a year too soon than a year too late."

[Radio_Lady]

1. Another fellow I worked with who wanted to be a quiz show host -- actually interviewed in NY, too,

but didn't get it -- has already passed on at age 80 last January 2006.

I hope Bob Barker has a few good years left. He's been around a VERY long time...

In peace,

Radio_Lady

[Melynn]

2. 83 and still going strong

Wow. I give the guy a lot of credit. I hope I'm just alive at 83.