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

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Aaron J. Brown is an author and community college instructor from the Iron Range. He writes MinnesotaBrown.com and hosts Northern Community Radio's...

  • Added: Aug 22, 2013
  • Length: 05:16
Caption: Gendron Jenson - Artist
Grand Rapids native, and internationally acclaimed artist Gendron Jenson recently joined MacRostie Art Center Executive Director Katie Marshall, He...

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio, KVSC, and KSRQ


  • Added: Aug 20, 2013
  • Length: 23:18
  • Purchases: 3
Caption: "Orphan Train" by author Christina Baker Kline
In the last half of the nineteenth and first third of the twentieth centuries unwanted children from east coast cities were the cargo of what were ...

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio and KSRQ


  • Added: Aug 20, 2013
  • Length: 17:09
  • Purchases: 2
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Michael Goldberg contributes "The Last Word," his weekly topical essay to Northern Community Radio's Between You and Me program on Saturdays.

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Aug 14, 2013
  • Length: 03:14
  • Purchases: 1
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Michael Goldberg contributes "The Last Word," his weekly topical essay to Northern Community Radio's Between You and Me program on Saturdays.

  • Added: Aug 13, 2013
  • Length: 03:28
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Aaron J. Brown is an author and community college instructor from the Iron Range. He writes MinnesotaBrown.com and hosts Northern Community Radio's...

  • Added: Aug 13, 2013
  • Length: 02:23
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Steve Downing has been a teacher, house painter, conflict mediator, musician, arts administrator, freelance writer, and has occasionally worked for...

  • Added: Aug 13, 2013
  • Length: 02:28
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Steve Downing has been a teacher, house painter, conflict mediator, musician, arts administrator, freelance writer, and has occasionally worked for...

  • Added: Aug 13, 2013
  • Length: 03:06
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Aaron J. Brown is an author and community college instructor from the Iron Range. He writes MinnesotaBrown.com and hosts Northern Community Radio's...

  • Added: Aug 13, 2013
  • Length: 02:43
Caption: The Band - I Like You
Charlie Pulkrabek talks with I Like You. Once in a while a band comes along that are working well within genres and sounds that you've heard before...

Bought by KSRQ and WTIP


  • Added: Aug 12, 2013
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 2