In 1978, during a question-and-answer segment with announcer
Johnny Olson at a taping of
The Price Is Right, Fields asked how he could get Olson's job. Olson brought Fields onstage and asked him to give an example of how he would call a contestant to "Come on down!" Fields worked as a radio personality starting in 1979, serving some 16 radio stations across the country, including markets like Los Angeles, California, and Tampa, Florida. He disc jockeyed music radio shows for over a decade on CBS'
93.1 FM frequency in Los Angeles during the 1980s and 1990s. Between 1995 and 1999, he was the announcer of the Florida Lottery game show
Flamingo Fortune. In 2002, Fields was offered the morning weather position at
KPSP-LP in
Palm Springs,
California. Fields was later promoted to Chief Meteorologist for KPSP and was charged with the weather forecasts on the 5:00 p.m., 6:00 p.m., and 11:00 p.m. newscasts for the station until May 2004. On March 30, 2004, producer Roger Dobkowitz notified Fields that Dobkowitz had chosen him as the next announcer for
The Price Is Right, a decision following the death of longtime announcer
Rod Roddy. The announcement of Fields' hiring was announced by
Bob Barker at the April 6, 2004, taping of the show, which aired on April 23. It was during this seven-show series that Fields set a record for announcing the most televised game show titles in a single season. This American version was hosted by actress and talk show host
Ricki Lake. In 2007, Fields appeared with Bob Barker on a fictional episode of
The Price Is Right in an episode of
How I Met Your Mother. In 2009, Fields had his own comedy web series on
YouTube called
Rich Fields Gone Wild where he discusses situations in his daily life with
Lou Ferrigno (
The Incredible Hulk) and
Adam West (
Batman) as guest stars in those particular episodes. On July 16, 2010, Fields confirmed that he would not be returning to
The Price Is Right for its 39th season. From 2010 to 2016, Fields was a staff meteorologist for CBS, delivering forecasts on its Los Angeles properties
KCBS-TV,
KCAL-TV,
KNX,
KFWB, and
KRTH. Fields served as the announcer on 55 episodes of
Wheel of Fortune in 2010 following the death of
Charlie O'Donnell, and provided post-production voice-over work for over 11 weeks of episodes, plus specials. From 2017 until 2020, Fields held down the Afternoon Drive position on Q105 (
WRBQ-FM). After nearly three years on the air at Q105, Fields and nearly the entire air-staff were let go during staffing cutbacks due to the
COVID-19 pandemic. In November 2021, Rich Fields was hired as a meteorologist at
WTSP (10 Tampa Bay), the CBS affiliate in Tampa, Florida, where he stayed until 2023. On February 16, 2023, Fields announced he was leaving traditional broadcasting to become a motivational speaker. ==References==