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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140 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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The last few years have been hard on everyone, especially our young people. The loss off connection to community may be a part of why we’ve seen so...

Bought by KWIT, KVSC, and WYAP


  • Added: Mar 02, 2023
  • Length: 28:37
  • Purchases: 3
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Native Americans and south Minneapolis neighbors testify to state lawmakers, about funding for the East Phillips Neighborhood Institute. An organiz...

Bought by Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota, WDSE, and KOJB 90.1 FM The eagle


  • Added: Mar 02, 2023
  • Length: 05:00
  • Purchases: 3
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Minnesota’s Hmong population lost a Secret War Veteran this month after Saint Paul Police shot and killed him in his apartment complex. The man, Yi...

Bought by KWIT, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, and WYAP


  • Added: Feb 23, 2023
  • Length: 28:35
  • Purchases: 3
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Ahead, reporter Alexander Aman brings us to the Red Lake Chemical Health Programs’ annual gathering. But first, people living in the East Phillips ...

Bought by Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota and WDSE


  • Added: Feb 23, 2023
  • Length: 05:00
  • Purchases: 2
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Today is a special episode of Native Lights. We have two guests! Sasheen Goslin and Deanna Reder from the American Indian Community Housing Organiz...

Bought by KVSC


  • Added: Feb 23, 2023
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 1
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2009 – Janet Horvath asked her musician dad an innocent question. Did he ever play with Leonard Bernstein? His answer would send her on a ten-year ...

Bought by KSRQ, KRPR, KBEM, KVSC, WDSE and more


  • Added: Feb 21, 2023
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 8
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1978 – John Lyght had been been sheriff of Cook County for six years. He’d seen a lot in that time. But a lion on the loose in Northern Minnesota? ...

Bought by KSRQ, KRPR, KBEM, KVSC, WDSE and more


  • Added: Feb 21, 2023
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 8
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December 1974 – Kevin Odegard grew up listening to Bob Dylan records on the basement record player. So it was incredible that the now 25-year-old g...

Bought by KSRQ, KRPR, KBEM, KVSC, WDSE and more


  • Added: Feb 21, 2023
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 8
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1965 – The Beatles were not granting interviews after their Minnesota concert. But intern reporter Holly Stocking needed a story—and she’d just got...

Bought by KSRQ, KRPR, KBEM, KVSC, WDSE and more


  • Added: Feb 21, 2023
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 8
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1976 – Lou Bellamy had learned the power of theater at a young age. Now he was creating Penumbra, St. Paul’s first theater to give a stage to an al...

Bought by KSRQ, KRPR, KBEM, KVSC, WDSE and more


  • Added: Feb 21, 2023
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 8