November 2, 1995: Open Lines
Nov 2, 1995
2h 50m
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Art Bell celebrates the 75th anniversary of commercial broadcasting by announcing his wife's application for a 6,000-watt FM radio station license in Pahrump, Nevada. He shares the historic significance of the filing date coinciding with KDKA Pittsburgh's first broadcast on November 2, 1920, and outlines plans for an oldies format with overnight simulcasting of his program.
The night's news covers a school bus hijacking in Miami, where a man claiming IRS grievances and a bomb strapped to his leg seized a bus of children with disabilities before being shot by police snipers. Art Bell discusses the FBI's proposal to tap one percent of phone lines in major cities, rising teenage drug use statistics showing higher usage rates among white teens than black teens, and the concept of a dedicated car chase television channel.
Callers weigh in on newly released Hubble Space Telescope photographs showing the birth of stars in massive gaseous pillars 7,000 light years away. Art Bell describes the images as witnessing creation in progress and repeatedly requests copies of the photographs. Additional topics include affiliate changes in the St. Louis market, the Vince Foster suicide note forgery analysis by Oxford handwriting expert Reginald Alton, and the presidential race.
The night's news covers a school bus hijacking in Miami, where a man claiming IRS grievances and a bomb strapped to his leg seized a bus of children with disabilities before being shot by police snipers. Art Bell discusses the FBI's proposal to tap one percent of phone lines in major cities, rising teenage drug use statistics showing higher usage rates among white teens than black teens, and the concept of a dedicated car chase television channel.
Callers weigh in on newly released Hubble Space Telescope photographs showing the birth of stars in massive gaseous pillars 7,000 light years away. Art Bell describes the images as witnessing creation in progress and repeatedly requests copies of the photographs. Additional topics include affiliate changes in the St. Louis market, the Vince Foster suicide note forgery analysis by Oxford handwriting expert Reginald Alton, and the presidential race.
Key Moments
Art's wife files for 6,000-watt FM in Pahrump on broadcasting's 75th anniversary: Art reveals that on November 2, the 75th anniversary of the first commercial broadcast (KDKA, 1920), his wife filed an FCC application for a 6,000-watt FM station in Pahrump, Nevada. Plans to play oldies during the day and carry his show overnight.
Hubble photographs the birth of stars 7,000 light years away: Art describes a newly released Hubble image showing six-trillion-mile-long towers of gas and dust with stars budding at their tips, calling it a literal photograph of creation 7,000 light years from Earth.