Hi, I will be visiting the Portland area in the next few weeks. I want to know if there's an Urban AC station in the area? Kind of similar to 102.9 KBLX in San Francisco, 98.7 KISS FM in New York, 102.3 KJLH Los Angeles.

The answer to that is no.

Portland doesn't have that large of a contingency that would love Barry White.

Better bring a wi-fi internet tuner.

Isn't KBMS 1480 Urban AC?

Part of the time, they use an ABC satellite-fed format. I've heard they've added quite a few other types of programs lately (talk, gospel, ?, etc.). The station has no website, so I'm not aware of any concrete information.

They also cover about a quarter of the metropolitan area. KYCH HD2 97.1 is called "The Love Train" and could be described as Urban AC.

1480 KBMS runs talk during the day.

Urban AC during other day parts. That is picked up from ABC's "The Touch." http://www.randbandoldschool.com/

During afternoon drive, they run a blues format. http://www.partybluesandoldies.com/

"Portland doesn't have that large of a contingency that would love Barry White."

Still, if you put it on the jukebox at the bar, every tanning booth blue eyed bottle blonde will shake her sweaty rump, or make out in a booth to it.

You see color. I see music.

For some reason, I just see blue-eyed blondes!

I hate it when I mess up my lip gloss on the pleather!

what is urban ac? ac has split too much. there is no real definition anymore.