The Long Haired Dude Talking Tech
For all you Art Bell fans out there, the announcement is finally official. Art returns to radio via Sirius/XM satellite radio.
You can read the AP story here or the official press release here.
From Art’s website:
“Launch Monday September 16th (if no anomalies)
LIVE Mon-Thur 7-10pm Pacific (10pm-1am Eastern)
Replayed All Night Until 3am Pacific, 6am Eastern
Replays Friday – Best of the Week, Weekends TBA
Channel Indie Talk Channel 104 (8 Hours/Day)”
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For those of you who are Art Bell fans, Art has announced his new Twitter account, via his Facebook page.
He also takes the opportunity to promote his soon to be relaunched ArtBell.com website.
If you have been enjoying the services of ‘FineArtStream.com’, to get your fix of classic Art Bell programs, you are going to be disappointed this morning.
Some time overnight, they went from having an error connecting to their stream, to the change to their landing page that is titled “Decommissioned” and has the simple banner that says, “The End”.
I have sent a request for comment, but have not received a reply as of this posting. Some of the possible reasons, might include some of the following:
If I receive any updates, I will post it here.
Update: This was posted on their Facebook page:
Update 2: They also posted the following, however, I am currently listening through this stream. Update 3: The previous stream seems to be the “U7 Radio” stream, even though it is marked as “FineArtStream.com”.
If you are an Art Bell fan, here is a little bit of news for you. Art just posted this on his FaceBook page this evening. Not sure what this means, but there it is. Art Bell is working on bringing his website back.
If you want to follow for any updates he may have, you might want to check out his FaceBook page. Alternatively, just keep checking the website under construction.
For those of you that miss the old show (Coast and Dreamland), you may want to check out this site that continuously streams his old shows. You can go right to their website at http://www.fineartstream.com or access it through TuneIn by searching for ‘Art Bell’.
Update: Since Art’s post, the page has gone from a white “?” on black background, to a white “!” on a black background and since then, the “!” has changed to yellow and now pink. also, there is favicon associated with it as well.
That favicon looks very familiar to the favicon that ‘used to be’ on the ‘artbell.net’ site, maintained by the former ‘ArtBell.com’ webmaster, Keith Rowland.
Update 2: Not sure what it means, but the single “!”, has now changed to (3) “!”, in colors Red, White and Blue. Perhaps denoting an expected July 4 launch? Just speculating here folks, I have absolutely NO insider information on this one.
If you are from the San Francisco Bay Area, you know Lee Rodgers. A legend in the talk radio broadcast business.
According to his wife Susan, via Lee’s website, “At 12:32 a.m. on January 31, Lee died.”.
Lee will be missed by all his listeners over the years. His insight and wit was a pleasure to listen to on my morning commute, during the 1990’s and his time on KSFO 560 (SF).
Peace be with you Lee….
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