With little over a month to go until Art Bell appears on his own show, DARK MATTER, on Sirius XM radio, he is taking to Facebook again. This time may be his most detailed public comment on the state of Coast to Coast AM and his relationship with Premiere Radio that we have heard since his October 2010 departure from the program.
I want to thank all of you for the many messages that never in a zillion Years I could answer. There is not much I can say now. However some Months ago I asked Premiere to stop my Saturday replay, I thought they had run their course and I wanted them gone for reasons I will not state here. They refused and continue to this day for reasons I still don’t understand, so thank Premiere for my new show.
The unbridled sarcasm did not stop there.
Bell went on to write,
I also want to thank George for signing his new LONG term contract. Without those two things I would not be going back on air. I would only add that if Premiere is going to continue my Saturday show, please tag it at the end with..”for new shows, please tune to Sirius/XM 104″.
Over the past several days, fans of Art Bell have noticed that George Noory has used several of his bumper songs that once played when Bell was the host. Even more, users of the popular website coastgab.com (not BellGab) have made a mockery of the call screening process on Coast to Coast AM. One user named Bateman got through three nights in a row, making references to Art Bell and even telling Noory and his guest that he used the fictitious product COLON BLOW.
With regard to George talking about my new show last night, whatever his motives were, he took the high ground and can now pick up open lines without undue fear, good move and thanks for the plug. George has a good trait, he is a nice guy. I would like to dispel the notion however that I picked him for the show, I did not.
But why is Art Bell so angry? He concludes his Facebook message with this cryptic statement–and perhaps ominous one for the suits high aloft the offices of Premiere radio:
The bone I have to pick is with Premiere and it goes well beyond Saturday replays, I have been called a serial Retiree on the Web and it annoys me because the rest of the story has yet to be told. I may well tell it soon and I think you will all be quite shocked.
Meanwhile.. there is a photo perhaps rocking what is not yet rocked in Coastland tonight. An image of George Knapp, the reporter and part time Coast host, interviewing Art Bell in the Kingdom of Nye, is getting lots of press and lots of comments. Will Knapp leave Coast and end up with Bell? Will the beans be spilled on what exactly happened to end Bell’s relationship with Premiere.. will the network stop airing somewhere in time..?
All of these questions could be answered within weeks, with the culmination of events of Art Bell returning to live air … somewhere on satellite.
The tension is evident.
Stay tuned.
DEVELOPING..
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give em hell belland take knapp with you
the only thing that noory can now do to compete is marry a young filipino woman.
Great scoop, he does seem a bit pissed, doesn't he? To be honest though, I was really hoping for a simple silent treatment come September 16 but I don't anyone will allow that to happen, especially now that Art has spoken out. Anyway, enjoying your blog, found you at Bellgab.com also 🙂 (my handle therr is Basswood)
Thanks for the kind words.. Hope you stick around for the “schtrange” news on here. How areeeee yeeeew” .. inside joke perhaps of the coastgabbers. Thanks Bassword, I'll look YA up
Funny comment. Ironically my friend made the same joke, though he ended it with the funnier punchline that Noory would probably accidentally marry a man
he should have given noory the silent treatment. Noory doesn't deserve attention. he shucks.
The battle of the hosts has been highly entertaining.. in as much as Noory has stooped to poaching guests once Bell posts them as booked to be on his show.. Noory using Art's phrases “raging into the night..” – and Art zinging back “Did he say 'raging' or 'flailing'”… it's been a long time coming 🙂
George Noory ruined the show by being too political. It is not hard to guess he is a member of the Tea Party. He picks guests to air his views only.
I don't understand why Art is sour grapes…I love Coast…started really listening regularly in 2009, always enjoyed the Somewhere In Time Reruns, or if Art hosted once or twice a week…never had a problem with George, he's a good American. I like his roots as a Detroit newsman to St. Louis late night radio host (although I never heard that show), who got the chance to take over for the radio legend Art Bell…now George is a radio legend along with Knapp and Ian and now Wells in the making…along with all the fantastic guests: Strieber, Hoagland, Hogue, Linda Moulton Howe, the Ancient Aliens guys and on and on…so many great guests…and the political and economic commenters, to me, are a great asset to the show.The naysayers to the new direction of the show who boo hoo about the show being too political, in my opinion, are denying the bigger picture that Roswell is tied into the JFK assassination and 9-11 being an inside job so Cheney, Rumsfeld, and the Oil-Military-Industrial complex could amass a fortune of a couple of trillion dollars and then slam the country into a long term recession amassing another couple of trillion in profits for their Bankster buddies, all the while holding back on the secret free energy they've had since 1947 so they can sell oil instead, whilst amassing another couple or few trillion in profits from the sale of alien technology: from computer chips to the stealth bomber and drone technology that the NSA will soon be “Big Brother” spying on you with…but what do I know, I'm just an 800 pound gorilla that loves Coast from the Art Bell era to the way it is now with George Noory and company.I'm Malcolm Brady, Time Traveler…Prophecy is not set in stone…
Noory a legend? A legendary baffoon perhaps.
It's a good radio show…I like it.