KINK

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KINK
City of license Portland, Oregon
Broadcast area Northwest Oregon and southwest Washington
Slogan True to the Music
Frequency 101.9 (MHz)
Format Adult album alternative
ERP 97,000 watts
HAAT 441 meters
Class C
Facility ID 53068
Transmitter Coordinates 45°30′58.00″N 122°43′59.00″W / 45.5161111, -122.7330556
Owner CBS Radio
Webcast Listen Live
Website KINK.fm

KINK—also KINK.FM—is a commercial broadcast radio station in Portland, Oregon metro area. The station began broadcasting Christmas Day, 1968 as KINK - The Underground Link.

KINK plays a wide variety of music, including adult album alternative, Album-oriented rock, rock, blues, acoustic, folk, pop, and rock and roll. Most of the KINK deejays are long-timers, including Les Sarnoff, Sean Marten, Bob Ancheta, Steve Pringle, Dave Scott and Sheila Hamilton. Dennis Constantine, who was the program director at KBCO in Boulder, has been the KINK Program Director for over 10 years. The station is well known for Lights Out, hosted by Sean Marten, and Sunday Night Blues Room, hosted by the Big B.A. Bob Ancheta. Other programs on KINK include "Sunday Acoustic Sunrise" hosted by Scott Alexander and "Tranceformation," a Saturday night show of trance and chill music hosted by Rubi Sinclair.

The station is a prior employer of screenwriter Mike Rich (Nativity Story, Finding Forrester), who worked there as a late-night disc jockey early in his career. [1]

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