Career
He hosted The Guinness Game, a revival of Truth or Consequences, and the 1990 revival of Let"s Make a Deal, and announced on several other shows. His first game show announcing assignment was in 1980 on Tic-Tac-Dough (filling in for regular announcer Jay Stewart), followed by The Joker"s Wild and Play the Percentages, after he began a contract with Barry & Enright Productions, that same year. Hilton also announced The Price Is Right following the death of its original announcer, Johnny Olson.
According to former producer Roger Dobkowitz, he wasn"t offered the job, although he did extremely well.
The job was then given to Rod Roddy. Hilton got his start in Louisiana at station KPLC-television He traveled around to various stations as news anchor/reporter, such as in Honolulu, Hawaii, KTRK-television in Houston, KGAN-television in Cedar Rapids, WNAC-television in Boston (The Bob Hilton Show), and KHJ-television in Los Los Angeles
He later went on to KOVR in Sacramento, California. Hilton retired from the entertainment world following the creation of a cleaning products company called Holy Cow, selling nationwide through major retailers.
After selling the Holy Cow company, in 2011, Hilton co-founded a new company, NovaGreenWorld, an environmental products supplier for commercial and industrial companies as well as municipalities.