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(By Dick Kalt) How many times have you hired people for positions, thinking they’d do a great job, only to find that it’s not working out as well as you’d hoped or expected? Either they just didn’t get it together, didn’t get along with others, or simply didn’t deliver a good work product. So you sent them packing.

Law360.com reports that Cumulus has, for now, won a lawsuit against former WAOA Melbourne, FL. DJ David Vickery who accused the company of failing to pay overtime under the Fair Labor Standards Act.

The Mentoring and Inspiring Women in Radio Group announced it has formed an alliance with Marketron to establish the “MIW Rising Star Award,” in honor and memory of Renée Roth, Marketron’s long-time VP of International Sales. The award will go to the top scoring scholarship recipient from the Rising Through the Ranks program. Beasley Tampa GSM Erika Beasley (pictured here) will take home the inaugural award.

The San Diego Radio Broadcasters Association has merged all of its membership into the Southern California Broadcasters Association. The SCBA’s new combined membership of 168 radio stations now covers 56,000 square miles of Southern California, reaching 15.5 million radio listeners every week.

After Emmis CEO Jeff Smulyan, Paul Brenner is the face behind NextRadio. It's Brenner's job to get NextRadio in the hands of every consumer by getting NextRadio on every smartphone. Smulyan says, "Paul is not only a brilliant technologist, but a terrific leader and partner who is making a difference in the lives of every broadcaster." Brenner is the cover story interview in the current issue of Radio Ink magazine. Brenner tells the story of a meeting with Apple's Steve Jobs that did not go as well as it could have.

That's the opinion of Mount Wilson FM Broadcasters President Saul Levine who sent his thoughts on the recent Media Ownership ruling to the FCC in a letter. Levine thanked Chairman Wheeler for his courage in limiting further consolidation.

The September 19 issue of Radio Ink magazine will feature an exclusive interview with Cumulus CEO Mary Berner. It's been nearly one year since Berner took over the company from Lew Dickey.

It's still underwhelming for radio in terms of political ads. According to the 85 major markets Media Monitors keeps an eye on, Donald Trump’s Super PAC, Liberty Action Group, ran a total of 552 radio ads in the last 10 days.

After several weeks dropping down the Media Monitors weekly chart, The Home Depot returned to number one last week by airing 45,558 commercials on radio stations all over the country.

The RAB, in conjunction with BMI and the Mentoring and Inspiring Women in Radio Group has completed its ninth annual Rising Through the Ranks Women in Radio Management & Leadership Training Program. Here's a list of the 2016 graduates.