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Hall of Fame 2007Rolland JohnsonVideo |
Rolland (Rollie) Clair Johnson is Chairman and CEO of Three Eagles Communications, which he founded in 1995, and its various subsidiaries The company now owns approximately 60 radio stations in small-to-medium markets in the Midwest, as well as FarmNet, a nationally syndicated agricultural news service.
Before forming Three Eagles, he was the founder, president and CEO of Duchossois Communications and was founder, general manager, president and CEO of Indiana Communications Company, which, together with Duchossois, developed, owned and operated 15 radio and television stations from 1978-1994. Previoiusly, Rolland was a tenured professor and chairman of the Department of Telecommunications at Indiana University.
Johnson graduated from O'Neill Public High School, in O'Neill, Nebraska in 1962. He earned a degree in broadcast journalism and an MBA in marketing and management from the University of Missouri and a Ph.D. in mass communications from Ohio University.
He grew up on a working ranch northeast of O'Neill and was relieved from the ranch when Larry Rice and Gil Poese offered him a part time announcing job at KBRX AM in 1961.
Nationally, Johnson is involved in community service as a board member of the South Dakota Art Museum, the National Association of Broadcasters and the Radio Advertising Bureau. He was selected into the Ohio Communication Hall of Fame in 2003. He serves his local community throuigh the Monument Hill Sertoma Club in Larkspur, Colorado.
Rolland and his wife Paula have been married since 1966. They have two married adult children and one granddaughter.