Peter B. Collins was born in Cincinnati and started in radio at an early age. He built a closed-circuit station with buddies on his high school campus. Peter broke into professional radio with summer jobs in Port Clinton and Bowling Green, OH, then attended Northwestern University. and was a weekend jock at WBBM-FM. He did mornings at WGLD then nighttime oldies, and became a late night talk host on Chicago’s WLS-FM, where Watergate coverage made him #1. He landed in the Bay Area at KOME in 1976. After a stint at KGO, Peter joined KRQR, “The Rocker”, hosting the morning show through the 80’s.
Returning to talk radio, Peter was the lone liberal voice at KNBR and later KSFO. To offset the unpredictability of radio jobs, Peter operated Collins Media Services for over 40 years, producing commercials and non-broadcast audio and video programs. Collins produced many radio shows, such as “Childhood Matters” on KISQ, “Street Soldiers” on KMEL, “Conversations on the Coast” with Jim Foster on KFRC, Spanish language community programs “Nuestros Niños” and “Cuerpo Corazon Comunidad” with numerous affiliates in the region, and “Nurse Talk” on AM 960.
A pioneer on satellite radio, he was on Sirius Left, and parlayed that into a nationally syndicated show from 2004-2009. He was part-owner of KRXA in Monterey from 2005-2012, and launched a daily podcast on news and politics that ran from 2009 until he retired in 2021.
He also worked as a political media consultant, providing services to campaigns including those of U.S. Representatives Nancy Pelosi, Tom Campbell and Pete McCloskey.
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