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In 1948 brothers O. Wayne and John Rollins, natives of Ringgold, purchased the radio station WRAD, in Radford, Virginia. Eventually the business grew into Rollins Broadcasting, and in 1964 the company purchased the Orkin Exterminating Company in Atlanta.

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