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Arthur William "Art" Bell, III (born June 17, 1945 in Jacksonville , North Carolina ; † April 13, 2018 in Pahrump , Nevada ) was an American author, radio presenter and one of the founders of the radio show known in the United States for Paranormal and Conspiracy Theories Coast to Coast AM . At times he was one of the four most-heard radio hosts in the United States.

From the start of the show until his retirement in 2007 and as a guest afterwards, he has hosted the program Coast to Coast AM ( Premiere Networks ).

Life

Art Bell III was born in Jacksonville, North Carolina to Arthur Bell, Jr., a captain in the United States Marine Corps , and Jane Gumaer Bell, a marine drill instructor. Interested in radio since his youth, he obtained a radio amateur license at the age of 13 . His callsign is W6OBB .

Bell served in the US Air Force as a medic in the Vietnam War and in his spare time ran a pirate radio station at Amarillo Air Force Base. After his military service, he worked as a disc jockey for KSBK, an English language broadcaster in Okinawa , Japan. After returning to the United States, Bell studied electrical engineering at the University of Maryland, College Park .

From 1984 he hosted a local, conservative political talk show there. He left university and started working at KDWN in Las Vegas, Nevada in 1986 . There he started the program Coast to Coast AM in 1992 . Initially, the program was one of the classic conservative talk shows, which at this time were about the presidential candidacy of the non-party candidate Ross Perot and a criticism of the storming of the Davidian sect ranch in Waco . Later, the show drifted into discussions about paranormal phenomena. Art Bell also became a member of the anarcho-capitalist Libertarian Party during this period . Since 1993 the show has been "syndicated" by Premiere Networks , one of the leading program marketers . Between 2000 and 2001, Bell retired from the show and Mike Siegel from Seattle took over. Siegel has moderated the program since Art Bell's semi-retirement in 2003.

Bell had lived on the edge of the desert settlement of Pahrump since the 1980s . Nearby is Area 51 , in the Nellis Range . In October 1998, Bell disappeared from the airwaves for two weeks. He later said that he never wanted to broadcast again because something "terrible, threatening" had happened. Bell's 18-year-old son reported a teacher for allegedly sexually abusing him. The moderator reported attacks and threats against himself without any evidence being available.

Art Bell was inducted into the National Radio Hall of Fame in 2008.

show

Art Bell was broadcasting from a shack in the Nevada desert that he also lives in, 65 miles from Las Vegas.

According to The Washington Post , Bell was a leading radio host in 1997. According to the Oregonian from the same year, Coast to Coast AM ran on 460 radio stations. At the height of its popularity, Coast to Coast AM was broadcast by more than 500 radio stations, reaching around 15 million listeners each night.

Bell also moderated the Dreamland show with the same content.

reception

In 1999, Der Spiegel named Bell "America's weirdest radio host". His program is the expression of a "[...] growing enthusiasm in America for conspiracy theories, universe myths and apocalyptic visions of the future."

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Radio host Art Bell dies at 72 in Pahrump home. In: news3lv.com. April 14, 2018, accessed April 14, 2018 . 
2. ^ Andrea Adelson: Audience Left Wondering As Radio Host Disappears . In: The New York Times . October 26, 1998, ISSN  0362-4331 ( nytimes.com [accessed February 27, 2017]).
3. ^ Coast to Coast AM with Art Bell / Somewhere In Time. Retrieved February 27, 2017 . 
4. ^ ^{A b} SPIEGEL ONLINE, Hamburg, Germany: RADIO: Schwebende Dreiecke - DER SPIEGEL 31/1999. Retrieved February 27, 2017 . 
5. ↑ Citing threats, Art Bell radio program ends . In: Nevada Public Radio . ( knpr.org [accessed February 27, 2017]).
6. ^ Art Bell. In: radiohof.org. Retrieved March 1, 2017 .