Thanks for the ping, Dave. I’ll look to see if Art is on in the DFW market.
I really do miss his show. Noory never did do it for me. Like others have said, he just doesn’t have the same indefinable qualities that Art does.
http://www.strangerdimensions.com/2015/01/02/art-bell-return-july/
Update 3/20/2015: Art Bell’s Dark Matter has been renamed to Midnight in the Desert.
Update 1/31/2015: Art Bell has officially announced that he will return this July with his show, Dark Matter, on the Dark Matter Radio Network. Five nights a week, 9PM to 12AM PST, free for all. Read the official announcement at ArtBell.com.
Let’s go back to September 2013. Art Bell starts a new show on SiriusXM called Dark Matter. It’s okay. It’s cool. But six weeks later, right after the Halloween “Spooky Matter” show, it’s all over. Sometimes when you go all in, you lose, or something like that.
The end.
I was pretty miffed when that happened. I didn’t think the show was doing that badly. The audience was smaller, sure, and there could have been more guests talking about things we hadn’t heard before. But six weeks? That’s hardly enough time to settle in, let the show build some character of its own. And then there were the streaming issues…
But I guess that’s just the past. I’m late to the party on this one, but word on the street is that Art Bell intends to return, in some manner, this July on the Dark Matter Radio Network. “Art is planning to return to broadcasting on the Internet when his non-compete clause with SiriusXM expires in July 2015,” reads his official website, and despite some apparent drama back in November, things appear optimistic: