For those following the madness, the quitting, the maybe returning, the quitting, the Sirius XM, the podcasting, the quitting, and the potentially return of Art Bell, you can check my other site http://horrorreport.com/ for that all..

There’s trouble afoot.
Lots of rumors to boot..
Is Bell done for good? Friday he was..
But now it’s Monday. In Bellland, days make or break..

WELL IT HAPPENED: BELL TOLLS: IT’S OVER! ART BELL QUITS FOR THE FINAL TIME

YEP..

BELL CALLS IT QUITS!
KXL DROPS
CLYDE LEWIS BACK TO 5 HOURS..
ROWLAND ISSUES CANCELLATION INSTRUCTION
‘REDACTED’ TAKES OVER MIDNIGHT..

HORROR REPORT: THE ART BELL ARCHIVE

WELL IT HAPPENED: BELL TOLLS: IT’S OVER! ART BELL QUITS FOR THE FINAL TIME

This was posted to Art Bell’s Facebook page tonight.. Those following know he had a recent shooting incident take place on his property during a live show.. It would be conjecture to say any such similar event has occurred but it would appear something serious may have occurred..

Last night during his program he mentioned that he thought there was an intruder on his property before the show.. No further mention was made after his initial comment prior to interviewing Michio Kaku..

Developing..

IF you’re sick of politics.. sick of all of it.. give a listen to Midnight in the Desert tonight

Turn off the GOP debate.. Art Bell’s guest this fine evening .. Jim Elvidge on the possibility that we are all living in a simulated world..

Some nights it’s so good to have Art Bell back on the radio.

ART BELL CLOSES IN! TAKES OVER KABC AT NIGHT IN L.A. STARTING TODAY!

MORE FROM MIDNIGHT IN THE DESERT… THE MASTER OF MACABRE IS REIGNING AGAIN AT NIGHT.

And now the late night fringe is coming closer to George Noory’s COAST TO COAST AM empire.. the same city that now houses the Coast, the post-Bell edition, is going to be joined by Bell himself..

MORE..

From Art Bell: MIDNIGHT IN THE DESERT IS PROUD TO ADD KABC RADIO IN LOS ANGELES STARTING MONDAY NIGHT! THEY ARE AVAILABLE ON XDS ON A FIRST COME, FIRST SERVED BASIS.

And LA is among those now served..

All beginning Monday October 26, 2015. TONIGHT.

THE NIGHT THAT ART BELL TAKES BACK THE CITY OF ANGELS, OFF THE PACIFIC..

ART BELL’S RULES

Yes, indeed.. they are written .. no bad language. One call per show. And no more shooting rounds into his studio during live broadcasts..

Bell clearly believes that guns don’t kill people, people kill people. In the same light, it appears just as evident that he also believes people, with the help of guns, defend people. 

He posted this image onto Facebook overnight as a clear response to the incident that occurring during MIDNIGHT IN THE DESERT the night previous.

Bell’s rules written.
And it is.

DAWN IN THE DESERT: ART BELL'S UPDATE

DAWN IN THE DESERT: ART BELL’S UPDATE

For days, Art Bell has teased a major announcement for today. That announcement hit–it also portends a major development in his program MIDNIGHT IN THE DESERT and another enormous opportunity for him to change the night time air waves.. From Bell: ANNOUNCEMENT from ART BELL: It has been a great two Months start but now it’s time to get serious. Starting Oct 1st Midnight in the Desert will send an…

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Art Bell has fans waiting until Monday to find out what this speculation is all about..

A new baby ? An expanded network? Another retirement?!

Inquiring minds are inquiring..
Undoubtedly a big weekend of messages on Bellgab awaits fans desperate for any piece of information that may shed light on what this mysterious and somewhat reassuring post on Facebook actually means ..

The summer of Art Bell

Art Bell and Keith Rowland have made it official: There will be July fireworks in 2015 .. the talk show legend is going to go his own way.. A podcasting style as opposed to the terrestrial or even satellite radio he did previously. This time he is greeting the 21st century with open arms, working out private deals to play music, hoping that fans sign up in big numbers to help his return, and beaming himself to every smart phone that wants him.

The show will be called MIDNIGHT IN THE DESERT.

Bell posted two messages on Facebook tonight:

Midnight in the Desert is on the way! It is official now, Starting in late July we will begin streaming a full show from Mon-Fri 9PM- 12AM P.T. It will come to you Worldwide on the Internet in 64Kbps Stereo on Tune In which has a free app available for download right now.
Keith and myself have come to a agreement and the main Studio gear has been ordered. There is a great deal of work ahead and all of you who are friends and fans will have to help out when the time comes by spreading the word far and wide.
Wanna Take a Ride?
Art Bell

And the next:

From Keith: The Final Results, Art Bell IS Coming Back!
POSTED ON APRIL 14, 2015 IN BUMPER MUSIC, RADIO SHOW | 1 VIEW | LEAVE A RESPONSE
After extensive analysis and elongated negotiations with several suiters, we have decided that we can go ahead on the planned launch of “Midnight in the Desert” in late July, using a business model that will allow us to manage the entire operation on our own.
As was hinted by Art via his Facebook feed, we thought about it, compared the numbers and decided we could pay for bandwidth, pay the commercial licensing fees, pay our own overhead and still be financially viable, assuming the following conditions:

1. We have a considerable number of fans subscribe to a membership service that allows you to access the archived shows anytime via the website for a reasonable $5 / month.
2. We can sell advertising to be played during the breaks during the show. Not a lot, but enough to help pay for the music licensing during the LIVE FREE stream.
3. We can successfully curb pirated posts of our content to the Internet.
We’ll be operating under a certain specific licensing model that will allow us to ramp up from a “small webcaster” status into a large broadcaster in the future. It is imperitive that we earn enough through subscribers and ads sales to pay the bandwidth costs and music licensing fees. We believe that we can ramp up successfully using the current models in place at this time.
However, this happens to be the year (2015) that music industry participants are negotiating the next 5 years (2016-2020) rates for music licensing on the Internet. It is a wide open arena, and some license models may not survive. But we believe that we can operate under the current 2015 model for 6 months, and eventually fit into a 2016 model that is still cost effective.
We hope to recoup all of our investments within the first 6 months, so we can better endure the cost increases that will inevitably happen in 2016. If the fans support us with memberships and the advertisers are satisfied, we should be good for a long while.
Keep watching here for the launch date announcement and further updates as we can pass along. We’ll let you know when it’s time to promote the show.
— Keith and Art

A copy of the text was also placed on ARTBELL.COM to inform readers there of the return..

I do have a few critical thoughts regarding this. While on one hand I am celebrating the return, there's a little part of the 20th century boy in me that will miss the radio aspect. There are only about 2 shows I still actually listen to on radio. I have accepted the podcast world. I love it, as a matter of fact.. I think Art will be best, only though, on live radio. I am happy he is giving a free live stream with downloadable content afterwards...

As for the pirates? I don't know if there will be an efficient way to stop them. Recently Art Bell has posted on BELLGAB asking for users there to become his deputies around the NET this summer, scouring the sites of the hinterlands of HTML for any and all pirate streams. And then threatening legal action. But that is plugging a leaky hole in a flooding dam.. it's not just that easy. 

As for the six month window, that is going to be a risky gamble. 

And there are some, even on the ART BELL website, who are shaky on the return. After the quick SIRIUS XM quit--when fans were left trying to return hundreds of dollars in merchandise to the satellite company after DARK MATTER suddenly ended after Halloween--some fans have expressed hesitation to sign up for a monthly fee in return to hear Bell.  The other side of that coin, however, presents a much different picture of the situation at Sirius. Coast to Coast AM quickly showed up on the INDIE station after Bell left. Along with that, there seemingly were other things happening behind the scenes that perhaps even Bell will address this summer on MIDNIGHT IN THE DESERT..

I think I'll make a prediction: Those fans that are hesitant today will be signing up tomorrow. The talent that Bell has will be hard to pass up, especially when compared to the monotone moronfest that Coast to Coast AM has turned into over the past several years since Bell's 2010 final departure from the 'hot air' of that show.

Summer is set.

Barbecues.

Fourth of July fireworks.
As the long and hot summer nights fill the air with heat and murky humidity, Art Bell will once again be broadcasting from the high desert for the world to hear. This time in a new century style..

The hot air will remain on the terrestrial side.

Midnight or bedtime?

Art Bell, back in his time, had a different take. He did politics for some time. But changing the format equaled a success that has been unparalleled by any in comparison. 

Art Bell is coming back to radio. But will people back to him?

Some cool new downloadable ART BELL MIDNIGHT IN THE DESERT wallpaper on the official website..

Lots of anticipation brewing for this summer’s return..

COMING THIS JULY: MIDNIGHT IN THE DESERT

It’s official.. ART BELL picked a name

COMING THIS JULY: MIDNIGHT IN THE DESERT

It’s midnight in the desert. 

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Crystal Gayle — Midnight in the Desert

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