Bob Stewart (producer)
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Bob Stewart in 1998
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Isidore L. Steinberg August 27, 1920 Brooklyn, New York, United States |
| Died | May 4, 2012 (aged 91) Los Angeles, California, United States |
| Residence | Ohio, Colorado |
| Nationality | American |
| Occupation | Television producer |
| Years active | 1956–1991 |
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To Tell the Truth Password The Price Is Right The $20,000 Pyramid |
| Board member of | Stewart Television |
| Awards | Daytime Emmy Award |
| Website | www |
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Bob Stewart (August 27, 1920 – May 4, 2012), born Isidore L. Steinberg, was an American television game show producer. He was active in the TV industry from 1956 until his retirement in 1991.
Stewart is known for creating some of the most popular game shows for Mark Goodson-Bill Todman Productions. These shows include To Tell the Truth, Password, and The Price Is Right. His biggest success as an independent producer was the Pyramid series, starting with The $10,000 Pyramid in 1973.
The Price Is Right, created by Stewart, is the only game show to be seen nationally in either first-run network or syndication airings in the US in every decade from the 1950s onward.
Stewart was born Isidore Steinberg in Brooklyn, New York to Jacob and Dora Steinberg, who were Jewish immigrants from Russia. He changed his name to Bob Stewart after he lost an opportunity in television believing that it was because he was Jewish.
During World War II, Stewart served in the Air Force. After his 1946 discharge, he enrolled in a radio-writing course. Within weeks, his instructor hired him to work at a New York City radio station.
Stewart's early broadcasting career included a stint at WNEW in New York City, and then at NBC's flagship TV and radio stations, WNBC-TV and AM, also in New York. In the book The Box, the native New Yorker said he got the first spark for The Price Is Right during his tenure as a staff producer at WRCA-TV (now WNBC-TV) when he happened to observe an auction taking place on 50th Street on his lunch hour. He developed the idea into the working title of The Auctionaire.
Stewart joined Goodson-Todman Productions in 1956, after he bumped into broadcaster (and future game show producer-host) Monty Hall on the street and Hall told him he knew Goodson-Todman's attorney. "You got any ideas?" Stewart quoted Hall as asking.
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