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Art Bell wants Premiere to stop "Somewhere in Time"

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Art begins on Sirius XM next week from 10 pm to 2 am, but has already stated a couple times that he's asked Premiere to end the Saturday night encore broadcasts of his Coast to Coast AM days in the 90s and early 00s.

From Art's FB

I want to thank all of you for the many messages that never in a zillion Years I could answer. There is not much I can say now. However some Months ago I asked Premiere to stop my Saturday replay, I thought they had run their course and I wanted them gone for reasons I will not state here. They refused and continue to this day for reasons I still don't understand, so thank Premiere for my new show. I also want to thank George for signing his new LONG term contract. Without those two things I would not be going back on air. I would only add that if Premiere is going to continue my Saturday show, please tag it at the end with.."for new shows, please tune to Sirius/XM 104".
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I wanted my name dropped from the show as well as my Saturday shows stopped to be blunt because I hated the direction the show had taken and no longer wanted to be associated with it.
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Unfortunately for Art, Premiere wholly owns Coast to Coast AM now and they can do what they please with it regardless of Art's wishes, so they probably won't even tag the end of them. Somewhere in Time is one of the largest Saturday night syndicated programs.
 
1. If Art isn't being paid royalties for the C2C repeats (which I suspect is the case) it highlights the outrageous system of royalties we have in this country that it is completely skewed toward music publishers. People who are lucky enough to be able to create marketable songs are sometimes able to retire on a song or two they wrote in a few hours, years ago, while the rest of us, Art Bell included, need to actually work every day.

2. Sirius/Xm should run a saturation ad campaign for Art's new show during the C2C repeats -- they can certainly afford it and Premier isn't likely to turn down the ad dollars.
 
Why would Premiere even do that? I know that Art is the buy who built that show, but he's moved on. They should too, instead of airing a host on another network.
 
wadio said:
1. If Art isn't being paid royalties for the C2C repeats (which I suspect is the case)

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They have the right to do whatever Art agreed to when he signed his contract way back when. They apparently own all rights and if they make money running the old shows, then they have a fiduciary responsibility to not forfeit their contractual rights unless Art wants to buy them out.
 
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