"Coast to Coast" founder and host Art Bell, dead at 72

[Anti Federalist]

Pahrump-based radio host Art Bell dies at 72

https://www.reviewjournal.com/local/...ll-dies-at-72/

Updated April 14, 2018 - 1:57 am

Longtime radio host Art Bell died Friday at his Pahrump home, the Nye County Sheriff’s Office announced. He was 72.

Bell’s paranormal-themed show, “Coast to Coast AM,” was syndicated on about 500 North American stations in the 1990s before he left the nightly show in 2002. He broadcast the show from Pahrump’s KNYE 95.1 FM, a station he founded.

Bell retired several times in his career, which included a short-lived show on SiriusXM satellite radio in 2013.

Returning to terrestrial radio afterward was not a difficult decision, he told the Pahrump Valley Times in August 2013.

“That’s easy, because I love it,” he said at the time. “It’s my life, and that’s all I have ever done. I went through a lot of family problems, so that interrupted things, and I was overseas for four years, and that certainly interrupted things. I went back into radio because I love it.”

[angelatc]

I thought he died about 8 years ago. RIP Art Bell - you were nuts but we loved you.

[specsaregood]

dayum, my favorite radio host ever. spent many nights working the night shift listening to him; and thousands of miles travelled doing the same.

[VIDEODROME]

Radio host dedicated to discussing the paranormal dies of Friday the 13th.

I listened to his crazy show while trucking driving through the night.

[oyarde]

RIP Art Bell .

[Jamesiv1]

Hopefully he is now East of the Rockies.

[oyarde]

I really had no idea he was that young , or that he had made a comeback .

[RJB]

I thought he did his best work when he filled in for Phil Hendrie.

[Danke]

[Raginfridus]

I thought he died about 8 years ago. RIP Art Bell - you were nuts but we loved you.

He did. He did...

[EBounding]

I liked this one:

[oyarde]

Bell , a libertarian who voted obama , reminds me in some way of savage and trump . That he could change his mind on any subject from one day to the next .

[oyarde]

In '91 I think I bought a new S 10 pickup and traded in muh Silverado . It had AM radio and I was running a plant on third shift so I would listen to his show I think on the drive to work ( couple of counties ) .

[specsaregood]

In '91 I think I bought a new S 10 pickup and traded in muh Silverado . It had AM radio and I was running a plant on third shift so I would listen to his show I think on the drive to work ( couple of counties ) .

I first listened to him while I was working the tech support 10-6am shift for a little ISP in san diego, with a view of padre's stadium from my side of the strip mall I worked out of and a view of the brothel at the other end of the strip mall. I'd sit out on the balcony/walk way, talking in the sights, smoking cigarettes and answering calls, while Art Bell filled the air in the long minutes between calls.

[Anti Federalist]

I first listened to him while I was working the tech support 10-6am shift for a little ISP in san diego, with a view of padre's stadium from my side of the strip mall I worked out of and a view of the brothel at the other end of the strip mall. I'd sit out on the balcony/walk way, talking in the sights, smoking cigarettes and answering calls, while Art Bell filled the air in the long minutes between calls.

Made me think of this:

[oyarde]

I first listened to him while I was working the tech support 10-6am shift for a little ISP in san diego, with a view of padre's stadium from my side of the strip mall I worked out of and a view of the brothel at the other end of the strip mall. I'd sit out on the balcony/walk way, talking in the sights, smoking cigarettes and answering calls, while Art Bell filled the air in the long minutes between calls.

Cops just recently shut down the massage parlor across from the local coin shop in town . I think it was good for business . Sales have slowed last couple weeks .

[Anti Federalist]

Radio host Art Bell died of accidental drug overdose

https://www.reviewjournal.com/local/...drug-overdose/

Updated August 1, 2018 - 4:05 pm
Longtime Pahrump radio personality Art Bell died of an accidental overdose from a cocktail of prescription drugs, the Clark County coroner’s office said Wednesday.
Bell died April 13 in a bedroom of his Pahrump home at age 72. The coroner’s office determined he had four prescription medications in his system: the opioid oxycodone, the analgesic hydrocodone, diazepam, often marketed as Valium, and carisoprodol, a muscle-relaxant. Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and hypertension contributed to his death, the coroner’s office said.
The drugs that killed Bell were lawfully prescribed to him, the Nye County Sheriff’s Office said in a video posted to Facebook.
Bell was known as the late-night host, engineer and producer of the show “Coast to Coast AM.” He specialized in talking about all things weird, including UFOs, alien abductions and crop circles, on his nationally syndicated show to as many as 15 million people nightly. After retiring from hosting full time in 2003, he started his own satellite radio show from his home.
His work captured the imaginations of long-haul truckers and insomniacs alike during his late-night shows. He was inducted into the Nevada Broadcasters Association Hall of Fame in 2006 and into the National Radio Hall of Fame two years later.
Bell stepped away from radio for good in 2015, about five months after launching “Midnight in the Desert.”

[AuH20]

I liked this one:

That one was great.