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.
Last night, perhaps trying to save some face, or at least what's not plastic and fake, Noory said he emailed Art Bell within the last week. Noory also seemed to announce some sort of strange "support" for Art Bell's new show, as evidenced by the user comments on BellGab .. and now tonight, Art Bell directly addressed that very subject by saying this:
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..
