Heather Collins is a well-known radio personality and a prominent influencer. She says those personalities can\u2019t coexist. So she has stepped away from Mix 94.1.<\/p>\n
Collins\u2019 final broadcast on the Audacy FM station was Friday. She had spent 16 years on the station, working middays before switching to afternoons, the slot in which she made Friday\u2019s announcement.<\/p>\n
A Las Vegas native and a Bonanza High grad, Collins said in text, \u201cI\u2019m still processing the fact that after 16 years, my time at Mix 94.1 has come to an end.\u201d<\/p>\n
Collins has managed the @RadioHeather IG account, with 32.7K followers, for her radio purposes. She is also a well-known Vegas influencer at @RaisedInVegas, with 269K followers.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe last year was complicated, and there are parts of my departure that I\u2019m not in a position to discuss right now,\u201d Collins said. \u201cSomewhere along the way, it became clear there was no world where RadioHeather and RaisedInVegas could live together anymore.\u201d<\/p>\n
Collins\u2019 familiar red hair was the inspiration for her original on-air nickname, \u201cHeather Red.\u201d Her sense of humor is evident in her outgoing message, recorded by Matchbox Twenty\u2019s Rob Thomas and Kyle Cook after an interview about 12 years ago. Thomas announces, \u201cHeather can\u2019t make it to the phone right now \u2026\u201d<\/p>\n
Collins started at Mix 94.1 as a part-time photographer.<\/p>\n
\u201cSomehow I worked almost every job in that building: Promotions, part-time on-air, nights, middays and afternoons,\u201d she said. \u201cMornings were the one shift I never conquered.\u201d She punctuated that sentence with a laughing-crying emoji. Mornings are not her thing.<\/p>\n
More will be revealed in Collins\u2019 future. For now, the Vegas broadcast favorite says, \u201cI genuinely had the time of my life. I met some of my favorite bands, watched some of those relationships turn into real friendships, and hopefully helped a lot of listeners meet their favorite artists, too. There are experiences from those 16 years that I\u2019ll carry with me forever, and I\u2019m incredibly grateful to the listeners who grew up with me and allowed me to grow up on the radio with them.\u201d<\/p>\n
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