Coast to Coast AM

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'''Coast to Coast AM''' is a popular U.S. talk [[radio]] show that runs in the wee hours of the late night and early morning.  It was originally hosted by Art Bell, who is now in semi-retirement but returns on occasion to host a show.  The regular host is now George Noory.  Ian Punnett also sometimes hosts.
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'''Coast to Coast AM''' is a popular U.S. talk [[radio]] show that runs in the wee hours of the late night and early morning.  It was originally hosted by [[Art Bell]], who is now in semi-retirement but returns on occasion to host a show.  The regular host is now George Noory.  Ian Punnett also sometimes hosts.
  
 
The show focuses on a wide variety of [[paranormal]] and [[occult]] topics, typically in a credulous manner.  The show is mainly driven by the personal stories of callers, although guests are often featured. The producers claim that the callers are not screened prior to being put on the air.  
 
The show focuses on a wide variety of [[paranormal]] and [[occult]] topics, typically in a credulous manner.  The show is mainly driven by the personal stories of callers, although guests are often featured. The producers claim that the callers are not screened prior to being put on the air.  

Revision as of 11:10, 22 December 2009

Coast to Coast AM is a popular U.S. talk radio show that runs in the wee hours of the late night and early morning. It was originally hosted by Art Bell, who is now in semi-retirement but returns on occasion to host a show. The regular host is now George Noory. Ian Punnett also sometimes hosts.

The show focuses on a wide variety of paranormal and occult topics, typically in a credulous manner. The show is mainly driven by the personal stories of callers, although guests are often featured. The producers claim that the callers are not screened prior to being put on the air.

It is distributed by Premiere Radio Networks. Local affiliates exist in nearly every major U.S. city. The program generally runs seven days a week, from 10pm to 2am Pacific time, although local affiliates may delay or abridge the program.

Coast to Coast AM features a regular lineup of guests from a wide range of fields, often pseudoscientific. Frequent topics discussed on the show are such things as UFOs, alien abductions, cryptozoology, ghosts, exorcisms, astrology, pseudoarcheology, topics such as the alleged mystical powers of "ancient crystal skulls", and various forms of science woo.

A frequent guest on Coast to Coast is UFO enthusiast Richard Hoagland, who has expounded his theories of life on Mars, and the supposed associated governmental cover-up.

Another frequent guest is remote viewer and doomsayer Ed Dames, who makes predictions of impending worldwide destruction.

The original host, Art Bell, got his start in 1984 with a local conservative political talk show in Las Vegas. When he took Coast to Coast AM national in 1992 it was briefly a political talk show - Bell was one of the talk radio hosts talking up Ross Perot's candidacy and criticism of the Waco siege - before he found his calling covering paranormal topics. Art Bell later joined the Libertarian Party. Bell retired from the show briefly in 2000-2001, during which Coast to Coast AM was hosted by Mike Siegal of Seattle. He returned in 2001 and went into "semi-retirement" again in 2003, with George Noory taking over regular hosting. Bell is the co-author of The Coming Global Superstorm, upon which the movie The Day after Tomorrow was based.[1]

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  1. http://www.wunderground.com/education/thedayafter.asp
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