Christian Griffin
Tracy Ledbetter is Office Manager, providing administrative and management assistance supporting all divisions of the company. She also serves as receptionist and manages sales affidavits and billing.
A 1996 graduate of Troy University in Montgomery and with the Auburn Network since 1998, co-workers considered her the most indispensable member of the team. Earlier, she worked in customer service with Russell Corporation.
Ledbetter is a native of Alexander City. She and her husband reside in Beauregard.
Alex Baumann was born in Birmingham and raised in Chelsea. He graduated from the University of Alabama at Birmingham in 2024, where he majored in Communication Studies with a concentration in Sports Communication and minored in Sports and Entertainment Marketing.
During his time at UAB, Alex interned at The Jay Barker Show as well as the Rick & Bubba Show. He also started a show with two lifelong friends on Tony Kurre Radio called Students of the Game.
Alex joined the RadioAlabama team in 2024, working in various content creation and on-air roles.
Steve Witten serves as Vice President & Market Manager for Auburn Networks LLC. In this role, he is responsible for all four radio stations, East Alabama Living magazine, and targeted digital marketing.
Witten is a graduate of Clemson University with a degree in Business Management as well as a graduate of Ohio University where he earned a master’s degree in Sports Administration.
After serving as Director of Marketing & Corporate Partnerships for Georgia Southern University Athletics, Witten joined Auburn Network Inc. in 1997. At Auburn, he was responsible for selling corporate partnerships with Auburn University Athletics which included signage, radio, television, print, and promotions.
Auburn Network sold the Auburn Athletics multimedia rights to ISP Sports in 2003. ISP was later acquired by IMG in 2010 which maintained the rights through 2016 when it lost the rights in a bid process. In total, Witten worked 19 years representing Auburn Athletics to corporate clients and rose to the title of Senior Associate General Manager.
Following his tenure with IMG, Witten served as a Media Sales Consultant with Raycom Media, representing both WTVM-TV (Columbus) and WSFA-TV (Montgomery), providing television and digital advertising solutions to businesses in the Auburn-Opelika area.
Witten returned to the Auburn Network family in the spring of 2018 as General Sales Manager.
Witten’s wife Beth serves on the Auburn City Council and is Mayor Pro Tem. Daughters Kate and Caroline are students in the Auburn City School System.
Ben Taylor hosts the ABBY award winning Auburn/Opelika This Morning on NewsTalk WANI and also serves as station manager for both NewsTalk WANI & ESPN 106.7.
A native of Red Level, Ala., Taylor graduated from Red Level High School and moved to Auburn in 1996. His radio career began while a 19-year-old student at Auburn University, and, for almost 25 years, he has been involved in radio sales and management or an on-air personality.
Lee Perryman’s roots in the Sylacauga area date back to 1838, when his paternal ancestors moved south from Tennessee, eventually settling in nearby Fayetteville. He was born and raised in Sylacauga, graduated from Sylacauga High School in 1975, and earned a BA from the College of Communication and Information Sciences at the University of Alabama in 1979.
Lee began his broadcasting career as a teenager in local radio and, after college, managed radio stations in Eufaula. In 1980, he joined The Associated Press as Broadcast Executive for Florida based in Tampa, relocating to Philadelphia in 1983 with similar sales and marketing responsibilities for radio and television stations in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Delaware. In 1985, he was assigned to AP's Broadcast division in Washington as Deputy Director, Administration. From 1987 until his retirement from AP and permanent return to Sylacauga in 2015, he led international teams focused on development, marketing, and support of news technology products supporting more than 60,000 journalists working in more than 40 languages in television, radio, and network newsrooms in 56 countries. During his AP career, Lee was also a corporate officer and had been responsible for major capital and corporate real estate projects.
Closer to home, Lee began small residential and commercial real estate investment projects and, in early 2012, purchased and rebuilt the radio station where he got his start -- the foundation of what is now the RadioAlabama station network and also home to SylacaugaNews.com.
Lee is a member of more than 50 hereditary organizations and was appointed to The Most Venerable Order of the Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II. He is a member of First Presbyterian Church, earned the rank of Eagle Scout, is a member of the National Press Club in Washington, and serves on the Board of Visitors to the College of Communications and Information Sciences at the University of Alabama, the board of directors of the Alabama Broadcasters Association, and the board of directors of the Sylacauga City Schools Foundation. In 2014, he was named Alabama’s Broadcaster of the Year and inducted into the Alabama Broadcasters Association’s Hall of Fame.
Lee is passionate about Sylacauga and, in 2016, was elected to serve on Sylacauga’s City Council and currently serves as its President. He is liaison to the Airport Authority and Industrial Development Board and serves on the Oversight Committee, the Lake Howard Authority, and the Planning Commission.
In building the RadioAlabama brand, Lee has recruited some amazing people to help create what is now one of the largest locally-owned radio groups in the state -- a multimedia company prospectively reaching hundreds of thousands of people in East Central Alabama via on-air, online, and mobile platforms. He's also committed to giving back, making a significant amount of airtime available to non-profits and charities, creating opportunities for high school and college students, and funding annual college scholarships for graduating high school seniors.
