Meet The KDLT Team

News Anchors

Anndrea Anderson

Anndrea is a reporter and the weekend anchor/producer. She joined the KDLT News team in April 2015. Anndrea comes to Sioux Falls from Scottsbluff, Nebraska, where she got her start in news at KOTA-TV. Before she made the trek…

Carleen Wild

Bio coming soon

Tom Hanson

Tom is South Dakota’s most experienced television news anchor. In September of 2014 Tom was awarded the coveted Tom Brokaw Award, named after the longtime NBC News Anchor. In 2013 The National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences presented…

Jessica Brovold

Jessica is excited to be back in the newsroom. You may remember her as a former evening anchor of KDLT News at 5, 6 and 10. Jessica returns to KDLT as news director after spending some time working in…

Kelsie Passolt

Hello! My name is Kelsie Passolt and I'm so excited to join the KDLT News team anchoring weeknight shows with Tom, Brandon and Mark! I've spent most of my 26 years growing up in Hayward, Wisconsin, but I'm a…

Ahtra Elnashar

Ahtra Elnashar joined KDLT in January 2017 as a co-anchor on the morning show, KDLT News Today. Born in Green Bay, Wisconsin, Ahtra has also lived in London, England and Sydney, Australia. She graduated from the University of Minnesota Twin…

News Reporters

Nicole Griffith

Nicole Griffith is thrilled to call South Dakota home again. Nicole graduated from the University of South Dakota where she majored in Media & Journalism. Her interning experiences led her to Minneapolis where she worked with KSTP’s sports department.…

Rebecca David

Rebecca David joined the KDLT News team as a multimedia reporter in January 2017. Prior to that, Rebecca worked with WJON radio station in St. Cloud, Minnesota as a reporter. Rebecca is originally from South Sudan, but moved to…

Sydney Kern

Sydney Kern joined the KDLT news team in December 2015 after spending a year in the panhandle of Nebraska working at KOTA Territory News. Before then, she studied broadcast journalism at Louisiana State University (Geaux Tigers!) where she earned…

Jill Johnson

Jill Johnson is back at home in Sioux Falls after being away for nearly 8 years. She graduated from Washington High School and then went on to recieve her bachelor's degree from the University of Nebraska in both broadcasting…

Meteorologists

Brandon Spinner

Brandon joined the KDLT Weather team as the morning meteorologist, and was promoted to chief meteorologist in the spring of 2013. KDLT marks the second stop for Brandon since graduating college. He started his meteorology career at FOX 21…

Blaise Keller

Blaise joined KDLT and the KDLT Weather team back in November of 2014 as the weekend meteorologist and weekday reporter, then he took the role of the morning meteorologist during the start of 2017. Blaise…

Sports Anchors

Zach Borg

Growing up, Zach wanted be a power forward in the NBA, a pass rushing run stuffing defensive tackle in the NFL, and a power hitting right fielder in the Big Leagues. "After shooting up to 5'7" during my growth…

Mark Ovenden

Mark has been in sportscasting since 1976 where he began his career as weekend sports anchor at WTVR in Richmond, VA. The Boston native always wanted to be a sportscaster since driving friends crazy by doing play by play…

Photographers and Producers

Adel Toay

Adel Toay started working at KDLT in May 2014 as a production assistant. He studied at the Art Institute of Los Angeles and South Dakota State University. This is Adel’s second time working at KDLT after he was a production…

Justin Wulf

Justin joined the KDLT News team in July of 2014 as the producer for the 6 and 10 p.m. newscasts. He studied at Georgia Southern University and South Dakota State University before breaking in to journalism as a sports reporter…

Monica Albers

Monica Albers joined KDLT in September 2015 after graduating from Valparaiso University with degrees in Communication and Political Science. While at Valpo, Monica worked at various editorial levels of the university’s award-winning newspaper, including time spent as its editor-in-chief. She…