Ampers

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Ampers is an association of 18 independent community radio stations in Minnesota.  Each station is locally managed and programmed by and for the local communities they serve.  Ampers is the largest network of community radio stations in the state of Minnesota and one of the largest of its kind in the United States. From Grand Marais, and Thief River Falls, to Mankato and Winona, and just about everywhere in between, we’ve got Minnesota covered. Our combined audience is about 250,000 devoted listeners.  Ampers has no affiliation with Minnesota Public Radio (MPR) and receives no financial support from MPR. 

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Short features documenting the impact of Minnesota's Clean Water, Land and Legacy Amendment.

  • From: Ampers
  • Updated: Jul 23, 2014
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A Look at Legacy

  • From: Ampers
  • Updated: Apr 12, 2015
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40 Pieces

Bearing Witness with Anthony Galloway and Georgia Fort is a production of Racial Reckoning: The Arc of Justice, a journalism project created and supported by Ampers, Diverse Radio for Minnesota's Communities, in partnership with KMOJ Radio and The Minnesota Humanities Center.

  • From: Ampers
  • Updated: Mar 27, 2021
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First-hand experiences and advice about the challenges and rewards associated with caring for loved ones in the last stages of life. Allina Health helped fund this project.

  • From: Ampers
  • Updated: Dec 29, 2016
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139 Pieces

We discuss race, identity, social justice and culture in a region grappling with demographic changes

  • From: Ampers
  • Updated: Jan 14, 2021
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select Ampers programming related to COVID19

  • From: Ampers
  • Updated: Apr 20, 2020
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Sex Trafficking - Breaking Free Sex traffic. At KMOJ, we're not letting it hide. We are pleased to present two hours of programming about people in our community trying to end it. We are proud that last year's program on sex trafficking won a first place award from the Minnesota Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists in the special projects category.

  • From: Ampers
  • Updated: Jul 05, 2019
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Moments in the musical history of Minnesota

  • From: Ampers
  • Updated: Jul 14, 2017
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Minnesota Music Notes celebrating noteworthy artists, people and moments that shaped the history of Minnesota's Mainroom First Avenue

  • From: Ampers
  • Updated: Sep 26, 2019
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Each week Minnesota Native News looks at social, economic, cultural, health issues and more facing Minnesota’s Native American communities. By informing and educating all Minnesotans about events, activities, and issues in Minnesota’s Native American communities this program interweaves the Native American culture into the rest of the communities of the state.

  • From: Ampers
  • Updated: Jan 29, 2014

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Health officials have been repeating the refrain for months: wear masks, wash your hands, keep a distance. But Laurie Stern has the story of one wo...

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  • Added: Sep 25, 2020
  • Length: 04:59
  • Purchases: 3
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In the federal guidelines, the CDC is advising against participating in many usual Halloween traditions this year, such as children going door-to-d...

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  • Added: Sep 24, 2020
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 3
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On September 17th, Minnesota health officials announced free “no barrier” coronavirus testing. Beginning the week of September 21st, health officia...

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  • Added: Sep 23, 2020
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 1
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On this show, Host Leah Lemm celebrates what the earth provides in the way of food and medicines grown and harvested throughout the year, and how t...

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  • Added: Sep 23, 2020
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 3
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This week on Minnesota Native News, concern about falling off the Covid cliff and the story of how one patient is slowly climbing back to health.

Bought by Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota, KVSC, WTIP, KMSU, WDSE and more


  • Added: Sep 23, 2020
  • Length: 05:00
  • Purchases: 9
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Minnesota high school football and volleyball are back on for this fall. During a recent virtual meeting, the Minnesota State High School League’s...

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  • Added: Sep 22, 2020
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 1
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A half-year since declaring a state of emergency in March over the COVID-19 pandemic, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz has outlined what he believes is need...

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  • Added: Sep 21, 2020
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 1
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December 30, 1997, Michael Jordan and the Chicago Bulls, who’d won five championships in seven years. were in town to play the Minnesota Timberwolv...

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  • Added: Sep 21, 2020
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 13
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Wendy Webb loved reading gothic novels. But when she started writing them, she didn’t set them on some misty moor in England, but in her native Mid...

Bought by WTIP, KVSC, WDSE, KSRQ, KVSC and more


  • Added: Sep 21, 2020
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 14
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In the 1960s and ‘70s, girls from the Midwest, many from the Twin Cities, were trafficked to New York to work as prostitutes. Locals called the are...

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis, KVSC, KSRQ, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, KSRQ and more


  • Added: Sep 21, 2020
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 14