I remember reading many years ago that Art sold the rights to the early shows and I don't think Clear Channel owns them. I could be wrong. In 1993 Wikipedia says the show was syndicated. Art Bell was doing a late night radio show about politics on the Las Vegas station KDWN (as most people know) and he started to move to the paranormal. Robert Bigelow financed The Area 2000 radio show in 1992 but pulled the financing I think after a year. Art bell thought there was a future and Coast to Coast AM was syndicated. Not really sure when Dreamland was created but Premier radio canceled it in 2002 after they bought one of the media companies that owned the rights.
I could read up more but this paragraph will help people understand some of the history of who owned C2C AM "On the content side, Premier Radio Networks bought Hot Mix Radio Network, Inc., the producer of seven nationally syndicated "dance mix" radio programs, Chancellor Broadcasting Co., Inc. and Talk Radio Network, Inc., syndicators of Art Bell's network radio programs, "Coast-to-Coast AM" and "Dreamland," and 17 other talk radio programs. " All precipitated by the 1996 Telecommunications Act which has brought us the very one dimensional corporate propaganda driven public airwaves the USA has in 2010.
My earliest show on file is 1993 - Ghost 2 Ghost.