Radio Host Art Bell Vows To Return
By ROBERT MACY Associated Press Writer
LAS VEGAS (AP) _ Radio talk show host Art Bell, who surprised his vast audience by mysteriously signing off earlier this month, announced that he will return to the air next Wednesday.
Bell, in a brief pre-recorded statement which aired Friday night, said that the difficulties that caused him to quit his show ''have not been resolved yet.''
He declined to explain the problem, saying, ''I will not exacerbate the situation by making public what should be private.''
''This was not any kind of hoax or stunt,'' Bell said. ''It was not a contract ploy. This was and is a family crisis.''
He said he and his family are in no immediate danger.
''I am very happy to report I will return to ''Coast to Coast'' and ''Dreamland'' Wednesday night, Oct. 28,'' Bell said, wrapping up his brief statement before leaving the air.
Bell, 51, signed off Oct. 13 with an announcement that he was quitting broadcasting, citing a ''threatening terrible event'' that occurred to his family.
But on Monday, Bell announced that he hoped the problem could be resolved and he could return to his show. He refused to say what the event was, only describing it as something that ''absolutely requires my full-time attention.''
''To disclose details of what did occur would have a rather immediate, negative effect on my family, and I will not do that,'' he said in Monday's broadcast.
Bell, who broadcasts from the small town of Pahrump, Nev., 60 miles west of Las Vegas, had cultivated a worldwide audience of insomniacs who offered an earful on theories ranging from space aliens to conspiracies involving the FBI or CIA.
His show reached more than 400 stations nationwide and had 15 million listeners.
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