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

Caption: The Forest History Center bunkhouse, Credit: MN Historical Society
Meet 1900 logger and troubador Boston McBride, a character of Forest History Center interpreter Brian McCaulay.

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio and KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: Sep 10, 2010
  • Length: 11:47
  • Purchases: 2
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When the bell rings, you are supposed to be in your seat. You are now one of 27 child units in a classroom.

Bought by KZYX and WTIP


  • Added: Aug 30, 2010
  • Length: 02:34
  • Purchases: 2
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I was so lost, so bereft, I doubted my vocation. I wasn't worried about becoming a priest, I was worried about dressing myself.

  • Added: Aug 30, 2010
  • Length: 04:15
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School is like what the postal worker Newman from 'Seinfeld' said, "the mail just keeps coming."

  • Added: Aug 30, 2010
  • Length: 02:51
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Some artists "own" a style. They eat sleep and breath it. Their entire career is dedicated to it. That's cool and all, but it didn't work for Deb H...

  • Added: Aug 25, 2010
  • Length: 27:44
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He finally succumbed to the peer pressure of the pastoral society in rural Northern Minnesota. His recipe for Summer 2010.

  • Added: Aug 23, 2010
  • Length: 02:32
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He used to spend summer evenings shuttling back and forth between the deck where the grill was and the kitchen where everything else was.

  • Added: Aug 23, 2010
  • Length: 08:44
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Do you like to travel by car, on the backroads? Where have you gone this summer? What road trip is in your future?

  • Added: Aug 18, 2010
  • Length: 02:01:30
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Robert Jevne attempts to carve a tree – out of a tree – with hilarious results.

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio, KFAI Minneapolis, and WTIP


  • Added: Aug 16, 2010
  • Length: 02:27
  • Purchases: 3
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Will Weaver, Bemidji-area author of books like “Sweet Land,” is also deep into the young-adult writing business. His current entry in that field i...

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio


  • Added: Aug 16, 2010
  • Length: 03:15
  • Purchases: 1