REMEMBERING ART BELL.

King of the Late night Radio show , big conspiracies , UFOs , Bigfoot &
Paranormal . Was a kind of "Creature Features" for the
late niters . 

Staying up late , tuning in on the Radio back in the 1990 through the 2000s was a wee bit of a challenge , you also had to put  the collage radio KSCU -103.3 FM if your antenna was good to pick up a barrage of Synthpop - darkwave -goth music . Even with a good radio the AM frequency would pick up the Art Bell Show live from Nevada .Throughout the ‘90s and early aughts, should you scan the AM dial in the dead of night, you may have caught a deep-throated announcer bellow a bevy of phone numbers over The Moody Blues’ “Ride My See Saw” for people to call to chat with Art Bell.  Last Friday Art Bell passed away at age 72. The radio program he founded, Coast to Coast AM which is still on the air if you can locate a good local channel .(1)>>Coast to Coast AM broadcast weeknights 1 to 5 a.m. on the East Coast, taking over a block once commanded by CNN interviewer and Garlique enthusiast Larry King. Signing on with Giorgio Moroder's "Chase" from Midnight Express every night, Bell was the type of guy who’d entertain any — and I mean literally any — idea, as long as it would make for good radio. Coast to Coast might feature an interview with a mainstream pop scientist like Michio Kaku one night, only to hit listeners the next night with Richard C. Hoagland’s theories about ancient moon civilizations. When it came to fielding listener calls, Bell was a firm believer in the “no screening” approach, rejecting the industry standard in talk radio. The current host of the show, George Noory, said in a statement: “Art was a legend – a radio icon who went against the grain and developed an amazing show ... His impact on my life is beyond words. He will be missed, but I know he is now on another journey.”

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(1)>>Coast to Coast AM. “Coast to Coast AM” airs on more than 600 stations nationwide and is broadcast Monday through Sunday from 1-5 a.m. ET, according to Premiere Networks, a subsidiary of iHeartMedia, the leading audio company in the United States.