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Robert William "Bob" Barker (born December 12, 1923) is a former American television game show host. He is best known for hosting CBS's The Price Is Right from 1972 to 2007, making it the longest-running daytime game show in North American television history, and for hosting Truth or Consequences from 1956 to 1975.
Read More at Wikipedia ›Bob Barker's name has been attached to a game show and a cause for decades.
Now it's attached to a building, too.For decades, the former game show host urged "Price Is Right" viewers to spay or neuter their pets. After he retired from the show, he donated $2.5 million to renovate a Los Angeles building that will become the West Coast headquarters of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals.PETA officials and Barker will be on hand Thursday for a red carpet, all vegan, dog-friendly grand opening.The Bob Barker Building on Sunset Boulevard has a new art deco façade, a rebuilt public sidewalk and eco-friendly cork floors, and will have rooftop solar panels.It will house PETA's media, marketing, youth outreach and campaign departments....Activists vowing to stop the killing of whales exchanged water-cannon fire with a Japanese whaling fleet they are tailing in the Antarctic Ocean, as sea confrontatio...
A conservation group's boat had its bow sheared off and was in danger of sinking as it took on water Wednesday after it was struck by a Japanese whaling ship in the ...
The dangers of protecting whales
Australia's prime minister on Friday set a November deadline for Japan to stop its research whaling program that kills hundreds of whales a year in Antarctic waters,...
Australia and New Zealand will launch inquiries into the collision between an anti-whaling boat and a Japanese ship as calls grow for an independent vessel to be sen...
Former 'Price Is Right' host on his charity work
Former 'Price Is Right' host invests millions in anti-whaling effort
Former television game show host Bob Barker , who ended episodes of "The Price is Right" by asking viewers to spay and neuter their pets, donated $1 million to Drury...
LA PAZ, Bolivia (AP) — Four lion cubs freed under Bolivia's circus-animal ban took off for California on Thursday, heading to a new life in a refuge built with the h...
Spring temperatures slow winter activities
Community gives veteran a hero's welcome
Danica Patrick may need to check her rearview mirror. Maryeve Dufault is the latest beauty to make the jump from the feeder ARCA circuit to NASCAR. Dufault paid her dues — and bills — in her early days in an interesting way: as a model on ‘The Price Is Right.’ “I wasn’t speaking English really well ...
The anti-whaling ship the Bob Barker and a Japanese harpoon boat collided in the icy waters off Antarctica on Saturday — the second major clash this year in the incr...
Sea Shepherd deliberately sank its own high-tech protest boat after a January collision with a Japanese whaling ship to gain sympathy, the former skipper alleged Thu...
Did a TV show force Japan to suspended its whaling operations?The Sea Shepherd , the ship featured in the Animal Planet series "Whale Wars," has become so successful...
Conservationists and the Australian government said Thursday they were not satisfied with Japan's suspension of whaling in Antarctic waters and vowed to continue the...
Former 'Price Is Right' host aims to protect animal rights
Former television host heads to Capitol Hill
A conservationist group that lost one of its ships in a clash with Japanese whalers off Antarctica has filed a piracy complaint in the Netherlands against the captai...
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