Longtime KROQ veteran Nicole Alvarez abruptly left the iconic Los Angeles radio station at the end of July, giving a brief goodbye during her final moments on air on July 30. It was a sudden change, and a notable shift after she’d spent the past two decades as a steady presence at the station through successes and the more recent tumult of the past few years.

Now Alvarez is breaking her silence, penning an emotional letter in The Holllywood Reporter about why she left, her hopes for the future of radio, and what’s on the horizon.

Longtime KROQ veteran Nicole Alvarez abruptly left the iconic Los Angeles radio station at the end of July, giving a brief goodbye during her final moments on air on July 30. It was a sudden change, and a notable shift after she’d spent the pas

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