Editing Bob Barker (section)

===Broadcasting===
While attending college in Drury, Barker worked his first media job at [[KTTS-FM]] Radio in Springfield. He and his wife left Springfield and moved to [[Lake Worth Beach, Florida]], and Barker was news editor and announcer at nearby WWPG 1340 AM in Palm Beach (now [[WPBR]] in Lantana).<ref>{{cite web|date=May 10, 2013|title=Bob Barker Shares Story Of Fire While Working At KTTS|url=http://www.scrippsmedia.com/ktts/news/206929541.html|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150711193249/http://www.scrippsmedia.com/ktts/news/206929541.html|archive-date=July 11, 2015|access-date=July 10, 2015|publisher=scrippsmedia.com}}</ref> In 1950, he moved to California to advance his broadcasting career. Barker was given his own radio show, ''The Bob Barker Show'', which ran for the next six years from [[Burbank, California|Burbank]].<ref name="Biography"/> He was hosting an audience-participation radio show on [[KNX (AM)]] in Los Angeles when game show producer [[Ralph Edwards]], who was looking for a new host to replace [[Jack Bailey (actor)|Jack Bailey]] on the daytime-television version of his long-running show, ''[[Truth or Consequences]]'', happened to be listening and liked Barker's voice and style.<ref name=autobio/>