[7] Hill attended East Central State College where he excelled in debate, winning first place in radio and poetry competitions in 1943.

[4] Hill began his broadcasting career at KADA (AM), a radio station in Ada, Oklahoma serving as chief announcer and program director in the early 1940s.

[4][1] While working at KADA in 1943, Hill was one of only one hundred people chosen from one thousand applicants to attend a summer session at Northwestern University for special training in radio broadcasting.

[4] In the summer of 1948, Hill was chosen to join the staff at the newly created WBAP-TV, also owned by Carter, the first television station in the state of Texas.

On the evening of WBAP-TV's first public broadcast, September 29, 1948, at around 8pm Hill sat at a table wearing a newly-purchased blue shirt.

[3] Hill was a pioneer in creating remote television interviews and feature stories at a time when recording equipment was bulky and difficult to transport.

This first color broadcast extended over three hours and included familiar WBAP-TV personalities, singers, dancers, a twelve-piece orchestra, and newsman Lillard Hill.