GS Hoste Who Finished Their Careers In Other Game Show Positions.

[TimK2003]

A friend of mine was doing a back-and-forth naming of former game-show hosts who ended their careers in other game-show-related positions and came up with a laundry list of people, mostly hosts becoming announcers. 

Some of which include:

Gene Wood -- Hosted Beat The Clock, and An6thing You Can Do, but finished as an announcer for G-T (was Combs Feud his last gig?)

Jack Clark -- Hosted Cross-Wits, finished as a rotating announcer on $xxx,000 Pyramid (?)

Jack Narz -- Hosted Dotto and Beat The Clock, finished as an announcer on All-Star Beat The Clock.

Others?

[Bryce L.]

Jack Clark -- Hosted Cross-Wits, finished as a rotating announcer on $xxx,000 Pyramid (?)

Actually, finished as full-time announcer on Wheel of Fortune, only left that when he became too ill to continue with the job.

[BrandonFG]

Johnny Gilbert.

Art James announced Feud and Classic Concentration in the early-90s.

[WarioBarker]

Larry Toffler went from hosting Finders Keepers to appearing as a standard contestant on several game shows in the 1990s-2000s (most recently Catch 21).

Johnny Olson hosted some game shows on the radio (and a few early TV ones) before ending his career announcing The Price Is Right.

Gene Wood -- Hosted Beat The Clock, and An6thing You Can Do, but finished as an announcer for G-T (was Combs Feud his last gig?)

I think his last gig was doing some replacement Contestants Not Appearing On Stage plugs for Price in 1998.

Jack Narz -- Hosted Dotto and Beat The Clock, finished as an announcer on All-Star Beat The Clock.

Not sure if his coming out of retirement to host KDOC's You've Got To Be Kidding in 1987-88 would count, but there you go.

[EDIT 9/27/18: Fixed above station name (I'd originally written "KCOP").]

[DoorNumberFour]

Bob Clayton went from announcer (Concentration) to host (Concentration) to announcer ($10,000 Pyramid, Shoot for the Stars, other Stewart stuff).

[bulldog_06]

A friend of mine was doing a back-and-forth naming of former game-show hosts who ended their careers in other game-show-related positions and came up with a laundry list of people, mostly hosts becoming announcers. 

Some of which include:

Gene Wood -- Hosted Beat The Clock, and An6thing You Can Do, but finished as an announcer for G-T (was Combs Feud his last gig?)

Jack Clark -- Hosted Cross-Wits, finished as a rotating announcer on $xxx,000 Pyramid (?)

Jack Narz -- Hosted Dotto and Beat The Clock, finished as an announcer on All-Star Beat The Clock.

Others?

Could have sworn Gene Wood last true announcing gig was The Family Challenge w/ Ray Combs and Michael Burger.

[BillCullen1]

According to Wiki, Gene Wood's last job before retiring was doing voice over work for GSN.

Not sure if Bob Hilton started out as a host and ended up as an announcer. Gary Kroeger might also be in the same boat, so to speak.

[MikeK]

Hopefully this person hasn't had his last hosting gig but for now, it works.  Frank Nicotero is the warm-up act for Millionaire.

[SamJ93]

Does Mark Goodson count? IIRC, he attempted a career as a radio announcer before moving into producing.

[BrandonFG]

How about Merv Griffin? He hosted Play Your Hunch, then went on to produce some other shows that ran for a couple years. In addition, Merv Griffin's Crosswords had just started production when he died.

[That Don Guy]

Not sure if Bob Hilton started out as a host and ended up as an announcer. Gary Kroeger might also be in the same boat, so to speak.

Hilton hosted the weekly '70s syndicated New Truth or Consequences.

[Winkfan]

Steve Dunne hosted You're On Your Own (1956), Truth Or Consequences (1957...maybe?) and Double Exposure (1961); his last GS gig was announcer on What's This Song (1964-65).

Don Morrow hosted Camouflage and Let's Play Post Office before his GS career ended announcing The Challengers (1990-91).

Cordially,
Tammy

[Jamey Greek]

Larry Toffler went from hosting Finders Keepers to appearing as a standard contestant on several game shows in the 1990s-2000s (most recently Catch 21).

Johnny Olson hosted some game shows on the radio (and a few early TV ones) before ending his career announcing The Price Is Right.

Gene Wood -- Hosted Beat The Clock, and An6thing You Can Do, but finished as an announcer for G-T (was Combs Feud his last gig?)

I think his last gig was doing some replacement Contestants Not Appearing On Stage plugs for Price in 1998.

Jack Narz -- Hosted Dotto and Beat The Clock, finished as an announcer on All-Star Beat The Clock.

Not sure if his coming out of retirement to host KCOP's You've Got To Be Kidding in 1987-88 would count, but there you go.

Actually, you’ve got to be kidding was on KDOC TV

[aaron sica]

Bob Hilton's last hosting gig was LMAD '90, and we all know how that turned out.

"Last"? He only had 3.

[Jimmy Owen]

John Reed King hosted several network game shows in the early days of TV and in the 70s produced Anniversary Game.