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Quote from: indigoo on November 05, 2013, 11:22:38 AM
I can accept that there may have been issues; I just think Art resorting to quitting like he always does was just absurd. It really changes my view on everything this time around. Maybe something could have been done if Art didn't act like the sky was falling if his demand was unmet. That's the problem I have here. Dropping everything and abandoning ship.

I'm just glad he's not in charge of the nuclear arsenal.

Quote from: Falkie2013 on November 05, 2013, 11:19:38 AM
How about just creating a new page called :

Art Bell Quits Again : The Never Ending Adventure

Hahahaha... thanks, Falkie.

Quote from: area51drone on November 05, 2013, 11:11:48 AM
LOL, you don't have a fucking clue.   Keep eating the shit, rat.

Nice customer relations.  Sorry, I don't eat what your serving.

Quote from: jblank on November 05, 2013, 11:09:07 AM
Oh, so this is your fault then.   

But of course!  And that mean, old Sirius!

Quote from: bateman on November 05, 2013, 10:55:35 AM
Again, this is what kills me. We waited years for him to come back, and he throws in the towel after 6 weeks. I think this beats even the most pessimistic of predictions.

It was like some sick soap opera playing out again.  Thinking about leaving the country, last minute show replays instead of showing-up, "the back problem,"hell, it was like years of his usual drama queen crap compressed into 6 weeks.  Thankfully, it didn't drag on this time.   

Quote from: area51drone on November 05, 2013, 10:54:32 AM
Well said.   

@others

And no, I don't work on their software, but I have worked on streaming internet radio software in the past.  I am now my own boss, so my ultimatums work pretty damned well now.  LOL

Try it with your customers, your real boss.

Quote from: Eddie Coyle on November 05, 2013, 10:48:50 AM
      We're all truckers today.

I am a trucker.

Quote from: swler007 on November 05, 2013, 10:50:47 AM
Anyone recall him at the beginning praising how great satellite radio was?

Oh, yes, it was just grand.  :

Quote from: area51drone on November 05, 2013, 10:47:29 AM
SiriusXM is a broken model, see my old post.

Streaming issues CAN be fixed with more buffering and better connection control.  I am a programmer and know this to be true, but it doesn't take a programmer to know this.   Clearly they don't know shit about their streaming stuff, remember the first thing Art did was to get them to change their time-out feature to 4 hours.  Lame that they'd even have such a thing for a paying service!

WRONG.  They came looking for Art.  He's holding the cards.  He threw his bet in, they didn't.  They refuse to do what it takes to help make Dark Matter a better show.  And he isn't asking for a lot.   This is Sirius being unreasonable.  But that's no surprise - $15 a month is unreasonable for RADIO and a SHITTY web interface anyway.   You can say whatever you want, but their web stuff is SHIT, and that's coming from someone who never had a problem with their stream.

I hope you have better luck with ultimatums to your boss than Bell did.

Quote from: BillW50 on November 05, 2013, 10:45:58 AM
... He told us that satellite was the future and that terrestrial radio is on the way out. Art singlehandedly sold many subscriptions for Sirius and many satellite radios. Then he says bye-bye suckers! I'm out of here!

That really pisses me off.  All that crap about "extraterrestrial radio," and then it's "beam me out of here, Scotty!"

Quote from: Dont Fear The Reaper on November 05, 2013, 10:44:25 AM

...Art is trying to give us MORE by quitting the show? Not so much...

This.  Art's gone because he wants to be gone. 

With all due respect, you're missing a key point.  Art wasn't the boss.  Sirius was.  Goodbye Mr. Bell.

Quote from: fave on November 05, 2013, 07:30:10 AM
Maybe he has serious mental issues, what else could explain this? ...

I just think after the initial thrill of being back on the air wore off, Art was looking for a way out, back to retirement.  I've known people like Art.  After the raccoon gets tired of playing with the new,shiny thing, it just walks away.

Don't contracts mean anything in the broadcasting industry?  How does Bell just walk away from a 3 year contract?  I saw the verbage from the Bell-side about being "a mutual agreement" but is that really the case?  Will Sirius take action for breach of contract?  All the excuses Bell has thrown out are just that.  BS excuses.  I'd think Sirius would want to recover at least some of it's losses, such as building the studio.

Even with Bell's past, I really thought he'd at least honor this contract, especially after all the build-up he provided.  What a let-down. 

Quote from: swler007 on November 05, 2013, 10:19:33 AM
He was actually bawling on the air during one  of his on air ghost investigations a week or so ago.

He can be really good when he's got a guest and focused on the topic, especially the classic paranormal.  I just can't take all the other crap and his meme fascination.  Definitely some dysfunction going on with him, but I admire his battling his cancer.  He's a fighter.

Quote from: swler007 on November 05, 2013, 09:59:21 AM
Ground Zero with Clyde Lewis is alright. He's a actor/voice actor so he is pretty entertaining to listen to. He really needs to get more guests though.

And stop all the emotional drama and rants.

Quote from: SixWeekTenure on November 05, 2013, 09:52:14 AM
Art should have handled this situation like an adult. First, if you're going to disappear without explanation, at least apologize to your fans rather than falling back on some excuse about the internet stream or cell phones when we've put money into radio equipment expecting a show to run for three years. Honor your contract and work with SiriusXM behind closed to doors on making the service better, for international listeners that have to fake a U.S. address and those who were online only users and dependent on the app to work. Instead, he gave management an ultimatum and quit when he didn't get his way. Didn't like the number of repeat callers? Adapt, take a Dreamland approach rather than blame others - it takes time to build a new following and Dark Matter deserved more than a six week run. The fact is, Art Bell flaked once again and he has no one to blame but himself when he could have done his job without acting like a diva, working out the kinks as the show went on.

Right on.  Noory sucks and Bell is a flake.

Quote from: chunter on November 05, 2013, 08:19:55 AM
I personally think the Dark Matter merchandise will go up in value. 

It'll be so rare.

Yeah, I'd like a shirt right now.  It would make a nice dart board.

Quote from: McPhallus on November 05, 2013, 08:59:55 AM

...But the way he chose to end the show without warning was pure shit.

Agree.  This is just WRONG!!! 

Quote from: SciFiAuthor on November 05, 2013, 02:13:28 AM
Is that really accurate though? The cellphone audio did suck, listen to the programs, potato phones and all. Beyond that, it was mostly bellgabbers. No offense to Jaz, but when a single Australian listener can get on so much on Skype that he has to moderate his own calls to not wear out his welcome, there's a damned problem.

What I don't get, SciFi, is if Art really wanted to stick with Dark Matter, why didn't he work with them for awhile behind the scenes to resolve any issues?  Hell, he was only on the air for six weeks.  I can't imagine showing-up new to a job, no matter my prior rep, and making ultimatums to my new employer.  Unless I wanted to get fired.

Quote from: shell88 on November 05, 2013, 02:12:14 AM
Call me negative, but I believe it's just damage control.  A measure to quell the anger. I don't believe it myself.

If it gets much deeper, I'm going to have to put on my boots. 

Quote from: littlechris on November 05, 2013, 01:48:03 AM
this just posted at artbell.com:

To All Our Fans, Listeners and Web Visitors

We are sorry that Dark Matter on SiriusXM has come to an abrupt end. We'll examine our options and may be able to return in a different format and medium....

What?  Is he going to channel his show via Evelyn Paglini?  :

Christ. And I thought the schedule listing of "Ping" and "Pong" was a joke.   :

Quote from: SciFiAuthor on November 05, 2013, 01:42:12 AM
You leave Geo....Art alone! Hater! LOL, sorry Over. I do like you, your Jorch's flavored butter comment the other day made me spit coffee on the screen.

This is like some kind of bizarro world Twilight Zone.  I never thought I'd become an Art "hater."  You did have some good points about Dave, though, SciFi.  Maybe he's not so bad after all. 

Quote from: FightTheFuture on November 05, 2013, 01:39:37 AM

...The show streamed flawlessly  every night on my Android.

Same here.  Oh, well, it's truly over this time.

Quote from: SciFiAuthor on November 05, 2013, 01:35:42 AM
You can hear the cellphone audio and how it sucks on the show. It clearly did.

No problem here.  It sure beat listening to Noory suck full time. 

Quote from: Agent : Orange on November 05, 2013, 01:32:07 AM
Right now I'm listening to Howard Stern, who is currently playing audio of a retard getting a lap dance. With this to look forward to at least my SiriusXM subscription won't go to waste.

  Geesh...quality radio.  I'll be cancelling Sirius tomorrow.

Quote from: popple on November 05, 2013, 01:30:28 AM
Art said on DM that the quality of cellphones has gone down. "Don't you remember when you could hear a pin drop on the other end?"

Not on any cellphone I've ever had over the years.    I know Art's complained about cellphones forever. 

Quote from: coaster on November 05, 2013, 01:17:24 AM
Way to alienate truck drivers. A shame they are being used as an excuse. :
I swear, if I have to read the word "petition" again..

I don't remember this being a big problem when he was doing C2C and truckers were calling in.  Just another excuse from a repeat quitter.

This all sure happened rather rapidly.  Looking at Mr. Bell's history of "retirements," I can't help but think the thrill of being back on the air wore off rapidly and he was just looking for an out, again.  He saw it and he took it.  I certainly don't blame Sirius for the demise of Dark Matter.