Dan Dakich’s 14-year run on Indianapolis radio comes to an end – Indianapolis Business Journal

Basketball participant turned coach turned broadcast character Dan Dakich is not an worker of City One radio station The Fan.

Dakich, recognized for a combative persona on his noon sports activities discuss present that debuted in 2008, tweeted about his exit on Thursday.

“Earlier as we speak, I did my final present for Radio One,” he tweeted.

Radio One is a model inside City One, the Maryland-based firm that bought The Fan—heard in Indianapolis on FM frequencies 93.5 and 107.5—and three different stations this 12 months from Emmis Corp.

Makes an attempt to succeed in City One administration for remark had been unsuccessful.

When The Fan was owned by Emmis, Dakich was suspended for 5 days in 2019 for violating the corporate’s journalistic requirements.

Throughout a September interview with IBJ, Deon Levingston, the Indianapolis-based regional vice chairman for City One, was requested if he deliberate to evaluate the futures of on-air personalities who labored for the Emmis stations.

“We did one thing that’s extremely irregular in our enterprise: We acquired a model out there, and we retained 94% of the model’s staff,” Levingston stated. “That’s uncommon for any merger. I believe we’ve already signaled our dedication to the employees right here and our dedication to the Indianapolis market with how many individuals we’ve retained.

“As we go ahead, we all the time have a look at completely different personalities. We have a look at gross sales managers. We have a look at account executives. We’re a enterprise, so we consider all of that. However it’s our aim, hope and want that we have now the staff that goes ahead for the foreseeable future.”

In Dakich’s social media put up, he indicated that he’ll give attention to the opposite present he hosts, “Don’t @ Me,” which streams weekday mornings on sports activities media platform Outkick.

“I can’t thank all of the listeners sufficient for 14 years of unbelievable enjoyable and controversy,” Dakich wrote.

Dakich, 60, performed basketball at Indiana College earlier than a 10-season stint as head males’s basketball coach at Bowling Inexperienced State College in Ohio.

He served as interim head coach at IU in 2008. From 2010 till 2021, Dakich labored as a school basketball analyst and shade commentator for ESPN.

For Outkick, based as Outkick the Protection by former Fox Sports activities Radio character Clay Travis, Dakich could be seen 9 to 11 a.m. on the Outkick web site in addition to at YouTube, Fb and Twitter.

Travis co-hosts “The Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Present,” a syndicated radio present that succeeded Rush Limbaugh’s present in a whole bunch of U.S. cities. One in all Dakich’s fellow Outkick hosts is conservative commentator Tomi Lahren.