earlier in her career, she was a morning radio personality on toronto's mix 99.9 from 1992 to 1994, co-hosting with tom rivers along with larry fedoruk. rivers left in 1993 and fedoruk and collins continued as a duo. she returned from 2001 to 2003. for the latter stint, following a short period co-hosting with steve anthony who then moved to afternoon drive time, collins became the first woman in canada to be billed as the sole regular host of a morning radio show on a commercial station in a major media market, as opposed to co-hosting with one or more men.