Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota

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Northern Community Radio is an independent, nonprofit organization that operates a unique community-based public radio station, KAXE and KBXE. NCR serves most of north central, northeastern and northwestern Minnesota with a 100,000-watt signal originating in Grand Rapids at 91.7 FM and a 50,000-watt signal in Bemidji at 90.5 FM. Northern Community Radio also operates translators in Brainerd at 89.9 FM 

Northern Community Radio is a different kind of radio. When you tune in NCR you hear northern Minnesota...its people, environment, communities, attitude. These are the "stars" of NCR programs. NCR is a place where people gather to dance to good music or to find out about the flowers in the ditches and the birds at their feeders. It's a place to learn about the world, laugh, meet good neighbors, and share ideas.

Series

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10 Pieces

Power in the Wilderness: Dramatized episodes about Iron Range historical figure Victor Powers.

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213 Pieces

What We're Reading is Northern Community Radio's discussion on the books we're reading and talking about. Hosted and produced by Tammy Bobrowsky.

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17 Pieces

Each Friday Morning we pull up a chair to one of member's kitchen table and get to know them a little better.

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8 Pieces

A series of interviews with artists that explores a community arts project addressing the aftermath of suicide.

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106 Pieces

Wordish is a writer-centered audio segment that features Minnesota artists reading original poems, short fiction and creative essays. Programming is supported by the Minnesota Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund and by the people of Minnesota.

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21 Pieces

The next generation of youth making real, relevant radio.


Latest Pieces


  • Added: Aug 26, 2015
  • Length: 01:58:48

  • Added: Aug 25, 2015
  • Length: 02:00:00
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Steve Downing reviews the exhibit "Transitions," at the Watermark Art Center in Bemidji, and the photography exhibit "Casa Hogar" by Brittany Fairb...

  • Added: Aug 25, 2015
  • Length: 03:32
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Julie Gard is a prose poet that lives in Duluth and teaches writing at the University of Wisconsin-Superior. She writes about art, travel, family, ...

  • Added: Aug 20, 2015
  • Length: 01:19
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Danielle Cheri is a writer, musician and hip hop artist from Minneapolis. She's recorded her work and published a collection of short stories and p...

Bought by KRZA and KSRQ


  • Added: Aug 20, 2015
  • Length: :59
  • Purchases: 2
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Mike Finley says about himself, "I'm a Minnesotan who has been writing forever. I seem to write poems that are simultaneously anxiety provoking and...

  • Added: Aug 20, 2015
  • Length: 01:24
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Bookseller Laura Hansen is a regular contributor to regional literary journals and has self published 2 poetry chapbooks. Her poetry has also been...

  • Added: Aug 20, 2015
  • Length: 01:01
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Steve Downing spotlights Alauna Yust and Karl Warnke, artists-in-residence in the old schoolhouse in Lengby, Minnesota.

  • Added: Aug 14, 2015
  • Length: 03:41
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Let's Be Less Stupid, Running From Office, Our Souls at Night, All the Light We Cannot See, Two Across, The Red Pencil, Mornings with Mailer, Hadri...

  • Added: Aug 14, 2015
  • Length: 06:00
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Jeremiah Liend is a Bemidji native and creative. He's produced plays and screenplays, always with his trademark wit and a hint of parody. He's back...

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio


  • Added: Aug 14, 2015
  • Length: 13:54
  • Purchases: 1