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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From JFK Elementary in Babbitt, Minnesota as child to Pike Bay on Cass Lake, Minnesota, long after her father's passing, Jamie Lee is still held up...

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio and KSRQ


  • Added: Dec 29, 2011
  • Length: 04:03
  • Purchases: 2
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They ride a mile for every degree above zero the temperature rises to on the day of the ride. Dianne talks to Travis about the ride, tips on winter...

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio


  • Added: Dec 29, 2011
  • Length: 10:17
  • Purchases: 1

  • Added: Dec 29, 2011
  • Length: 14:08
  • Purchases: 2
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"I Gave My Heart To Know This" illuminates the lives of three female shipbuilder's during World War Two who are coping with the absence of their me...

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  • Added: Dec 27, 2011
  • Length: 16:29
  • Purchases: 1
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This collection of short stories captures the beauty, triumph and challenge of making the leap of moving from the city to a small town on the North...

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  • Added: Dec 27, 2011
  • Length: 28:06
  • Purchases: 1
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Heidi Holtan talks with Therese Zink about this collection of writing in various forms penned by modern day rural health care professionals. Things...

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  • Added: Dec 27, 2011
  • Length: 20:08
  • Purchases: 1
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From the squeamish advertisements and sweatshops of the 1890's to the risqué bullet bras and silk sleepwear of the 1940's and 50's, Susan Marks chr...

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  • Added: Dec 27, 2011
  • Length: 16:17
  • Purchases: 1
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It’s not a town or township, but when Finnish-American families moved there 95 years ago it became a vibrant community that exists to this day. Ol...

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio and KSRQ


  • Added: Dec 27, 2011
  • Length: 23:36
  • Purchases: 2
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Travis Ryder gets into the Holiday Spirit in this edition of Centerstage Minnesota with music from Bill and Kate Isles, Low, Caliegh, Bob Dylan, an...

  • Added: Dec 23, 2011
  • Length: 58:51
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A career journalist takes on and eventually overcomes artistic, academic, and health challenges and lives to tell about it in "Film School."

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Dec 22, 2011
  • Length: 26:06
  • Purchases: 1