By Kevin Wing

A major Bay Area television and radio publicity and promotions executive has died.

Kenny Wardell, Sr., former Director of Publicity and Public Relations at KTVU in Oakland, has died according to a Facebook post by his son, Kenny Wardell, Jr.

Wardell was 76. He died Sunday.

Wardell worked at KTVU for 10 years. In addition to his Bay Area television career, he also had an illustrious career in Bay Area radio, serving as former assistant program director and public relations director at KFOG. He was also a former air personality and promotion director at KMEL.

Wardell also worked at one time as marketing director at KCBS radio.

In recent years, he was senior managing director at BAM: Bay Area Music Magazine, which he resurrected an online San Francisco-centric music magazine in 2011.

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