Posted on 11/04/2013 2:55:12 PM PST by Beowulf9
Art Bell show on Sirius radio was being pirated by many and streaming free, he said, everywhere. Many haven't been able to hear Art's show as they could not pay for Sirius radio so Art tried to get Sirius radio to cut a deal with Sirius for the show be free as it aired. Only the night it aired.
Today the news came through, the deal didn't:
"Sometimes when you are "all in" you win, sometimes lose. By mutual agreement Dark Matter will no longer air as of tonight" ~ Art Bell
I love political talk radio as much as anyone, but Art Bell had the most fascinating, downright entertaining show ever.
He really need to be on the air right now. He was made for these times.
“I set up a youtube playlist with the new shows, and will look for your story when I get to the Spooky Matter one. I listen on long trips.”
That’s very nice of you. Thank you. It was a great show, btw. My fav, Stella’s story.
Sent art bell an email one night when shadow people were the hot topic. He read it on the air. Loved his show. Gonna miss his new one too.
Thanks, I listened to those on Amazon. I’m looking for a different one which is more of a synthesized instrumental. It was used at the start of the show for a long time.
Must be the aliens.
Art Bell Leaves SiriusXMPosted on November 5, 2013 in Media Coverage | 1 View | Leave a response
Art Bell, the radio icon that joined the SiriusXM line-up on September 16th is leaving the air after just a month and a half. While passionate satellite radio fans may not want to hear it, his reasons for leaving boiled down to three main things:
- SiriusXM’s web player is notoriously unreliable, causing a loss of subscribers and a degraded listening experience for those who remain listening online.
- For a “caller driven” show, the caller pool for art’s show is just too small.
- International listeners have no legitimate way to hear the show.
This is not the first time that we have heard issues relating to the Internet platform offered up by SiriusXM. There have been a host of issues from the functionality to being booted off, to having longer shows reset from the beginning after an hour and a half, making it almost impossible to listen to a 2 hour show on demand.
When signed by SiriusXM, Bell had only glowing things to say:
“SiriusXM is the perfect fit for me and my new show Art Bell’s Dark Matter,” said Art Bell. “Though invisible, dark matter accounts for gravitational forces observed in the universe—expect these forces to be at work in the uncensored, unrestricted creative arena of satellite radio, a medium with truly extraterrestrial reach.”
It would appear that after just a short period of time, second thoughts emerged.
The departure of Bell, as unfortunate as it is, should be a signal to SiriusXM. The company has a compelling product, great content, and great potential, but in some ways has lost the edge that it once had. The frustrations of Bell can be heard on other channels as well. Opie & Anthony, Howard Stern, Jay Thomas, and others have all at times expressed a great deal of frustration. In some ways, the complaints of on air personalities ring back to the old FM days of terrestrial radio, a path that many consumers and on air personalities could not wait to get away from.
I finally managed to sit down and read both this one and the you FReep Mailed me.
Both are VERY good, certainly better than anything I can come up with :)
The one in FReepmail was a story idea. Sort of merged a couple of things in my head.
I was working graveyard shift at the time; he kept me awake. Then he received pieces of the 1947 Roswell UFO crash in the mail, and that’s when I joined his fanlist.
Not one of those guys on his fanlist knew how to think critically, so they were easy targets. That’s why I won the debate with MJ SETI, he had never before encountered a real critical thinker who simply exposed his logical fallacies.
Great for you, Kevmo. I commend you.
art is the only one for the overnight flight.
noory sux ass. he said in 2008 between begging money for his “kids” he said he could be the next president because he is so popular, and has so many listeners.
sorry , but in chicago they took c2c off the air years ago to play those two trucker radio nitwitts on all the channels. cumulus radio took over and killed the late night media IMHO.
I used to like art during the week, and drudge on sunday night.
now there’s nothing, and I refuse to get a subscription radio.
air is free, just like me. forever. no negotiation. molon labe
Thanks for the link and the updated information, Yo-Yo! :)
I bought a “Mondo” Grace Digital wi-fi radio. It streams the shows I enjoy without the hefty price of Sirius/XM and has ten pre-sets. George Noorey is on KZRG nightly. The cost was under $120. No reason why it wouldn’t work in a truck with AC adapter. IMHO, Sirius/XM is overpriced.
He “retired” from radio to get married and spend time with Ramona.
He wasn’t cancelled. According to Talkers magazine, he got frustrated with SiriusXM’s online player being unreliable as well as SiriusXM satellite and online streaming being unavailable outside of the US and Canada. He wasn’t in complete control of his content, specifically the podcasts which were controlled by SiriusXM. I don’t know why he didn’t think of any of this before he signed an agreement with SXM. Because the online product is subscription based. You have to subscribe to it to hear it. And like the BBC iPlayer in Great Britain, you have to be in the US and Canada (SiriusXM’s market area) to hear it.
You mean Ramona’s spirit, I suppose. LOL
Yes...lol.
Ramona died January 5, 2006.
IIRC, Art remarried shortly afterward.
His grieving time was brief.
:)
It sounded more like he got a cease and desist order from Coast to Coast. He was complaining about sharing guests with them and might have set of alarms with the big dogs. That explains why he won’t restart his type of show. He must have signed a noncompete agreement when he quit coast to coast.
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