re: George Noory (Coast to Coast) is insufferable these days

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I agree with the topic. I held out hope for Mr. Noory longer than most people.

Banned Guests
-Sylvia Browne was banned by George Noory after the Sago mine incident in January 2006.

-Nancy Lieder was not booked between October 2011 and October 2016, since several of her prophecies had failed.

-The Amazing Kreskin was banned after misrepresenting a so-called mass "happening" as a UFO sighting.

-The Ghost Buster Gals are no longer booked, since they appeared on Art Bell's Dark Matter. Foster and Laure Lee have stated that Coast to Coast AM producer Tommy Danheiser informed them that since they were on Dark Matter their services were no longer needed.

-John Barbour was dumped mid-interview by George Noory on September 27, 2016 for what Noory deemed excessive profanity. However, Barbour refuted this in another interview, citing differences of opinion about some of the people about which he was telling anecdotes.

-Sandy Irons was banned by George Noory due to Irons simply calling in to bash fan theories surrounding Supreme Leader Snoke of the Star Wars franchise. Irons' final call in was on August 16, 2017 when he shouted over the phone, "Your Snoke theory sucks! All Snoke theories suck!" as soon as he got on the line. Noory simply asked Irons for his own Snoke theory and Irons began shouting again. Noory dumped him mid-shouting and Irons was banned from the program.[20]

-Richard C. Hoagland who was banned after appearing on Art Bell's show.

Art Bell stated that the decision to come out of retirement was entirely his, a response to the direction that George Noory has taken the show—too much political talk (Noory contends that Coast is “bi-partisan, straight down the middle“ but most correspondents and political guests are rightwing) and not enough of open-minded exploration of the supernatural that defined Bell's tenure as host. Noory, Bell said, has "ruined" the franchise of Coast to Coast AM.[21] Noory said after Bell's death (in April 2018) that the two were “not that close” personally and that there were major differences in their approaches.[22]

The program's ratings under Noory have fallen to only 3.25 million listeners per week. Coast to Coast AM previously boasted a weekly listening audience in excess of 10 million listeners under Art Bell.[23][24] At its peak “Coast to Coast AM” under Art Bell was syndicated by Premiere Radio Network, and aired on more than 500 radio stations with 15 million listeners.[25] Since 2013 the listener numbers have shrunk an additional half million to a mere 2.75 million.[26] Listener numbers in 2014 have continued to decline to 2.5 million.[26]

Scholars have criticized Coast to Coast AM for promoting pseudohistoric and pseudoscientific ideas.