Jake Query will be new midday host on The Fan, filling slot left by Dan Dakich

INDIANAPOLIS -- Jake Query, longtime Indianapolis sports broadcaster and radio personality, will be the new midday host on The Fan, taking over the noon to 3 p.m. slot left vacant when Dan Dakich left the station in December.

"It is a big show announcement and I think, certainly, it is the elephant in the room," Kevin Bowen said Friday morning as the announcement was made on the "Kevin & Query" show, where Query has co-hosted the past two years. "As a station we have been searching for someone in a permanent basis or, I guess, multiple people in a permanent basis from a noon to 3 standpoint. The company has searched the entire country for the absolute best person to lead that."

"Query & Company" will launch Aug. 21 on 93.5 and 107.5 The Fan, the city's only radio station dedicated to sports talk. It will feature a variety of co-hosts, including Jimmy Cook who has been filling in on the noon show the past eight months.

"Query will take the main chair ... until a permanent co-host is decided upon," The Fan said in its announcement.

When his boss came to Query with the idea of moving from a 7 a.m. start to a noon start, "my first thought was OK, so you mean I don't wake up in the dark anymore?" he said. "Because in the wintertime, getting up early ... I am a night owl."

Bowen joked Friday about the times Query has overslept their morning show. "You won't be oversleeping noon to 3," he said.

"Well let's not ... " Query said. "There's a wager there."

Both Query and Bowen said they were emotional about splitting up, but excited for the future.

"I think it's fair to say I have mixed emotions ... I've been pretty proud of what we have built over the last two years and I've really enjoyed working with you," Bowen said. "You are really, really talented and you've got a hell of a brain, you've got a hell of a heart."

Query, 50, reminisced Friday about his dream as a young sports reporter, to be able to talk to people in Indianapolis about sports.

"I mean that's really what I wanted to do," he said. "Not only that but talk to people in Indianapolis and be a voice for people that didn't have one of their own. Those were important things to me."

New morning show

Query's move to midday leaves an opening on The Fan's morning show. That spot will be filled by Indiana native Andy Sweeney in a new show called “The Wake Up Call with KB and Andy."

For the past 13 years, Sweeney has been the host of "The Take with Andy Sweeney," as well as the program director on ESPN Louisville.

"There's no way to describe how excited and grateful I am. I'm ready to roll," Sweeney, posted to X (formerly Twitter) Friday. "I describe this station as mighty. It is a dream come true."

Sweeney grew up in Jeffersonville and graduated from Jeffersonville High. Though he worked in Louisville, he has lived in Sellersberg, Indiana. While at the Kentucky station, Sweeney made sure it was a Colts affiliate, "and is thrilled to be able to cover the team up close," The Fan said.

The changes announced Friday on The Fan come a year after the station, along with other Indianapolis stations, were sold to Urban One in one of the biggest shocks to local radio in recent history. Emmis Communications sold its Indianapolis stations to Urban One last year, a sale that included B105 (WYXB 105.7-FM), HANK FM (97.1-FM), The Fan (93.5-FM and 107.5-FM), WIBC (93.1-FM) and Network Indiana.

Months later, longtime controversial radio host Dan Dakich left The Fan, opening the midday slot.

Follow IndyStar sports reporter Dana Benbow on Twitter: @DanaBenbow. Reach her via email: dbenbow@indystar.com.

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