Professional Career
Collins worked early in his career for a radio station in Tampa, Florida, at WKGN Knoxville, Tennessee and then took a job as a disk jockey in Milwaukee at WOKY and WRIT. In 1974, he joined WGN-AM. In July 1986, he succeeded the station's legendary and top-rated morning-drive host Wally Phillips. Collins would become Chicago's top-rated morning radio host until his death in 2000.
His folksy style appealed to a great many people, as his ratings numbers indicated. He was affectionately known as "Uncle Bobby". .
He enjoyed flying his Zlin 242 L airplane, riding his Harley and the Chicago Cubs. His interest in flying would prove fatal.
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