Alicia Elsner Named KSDK President-GM

Tegna-owned NBC affiliate KSDK St. Louis (DMA 21) today promoted Alicia Elsner to president and general manager. Elsner had been director of sales at KSDK since 2009. She succeeds Marv Danielski, who left in July.

Elsner has spent 19 years with Tegna, all of them at KSDK. She started as a marketing consultant in 1997 before being named director of business development in 2000. She then served as the station’s local sales manager for nearly six years before being promoted to director of sales.

She began her career at KMOX-AM St. Louis as an account executive.

A native of St. Louis, Elsner graduated from Miami University in Oxford, Ohio.