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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The band name Roma Di Luna translates to 'Gypsies of the Moon' - the name is a mish-mash of different languages and cultures; 'Roma' references th...

  • Added: May 21, 2010
  • Length: 31:21
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Growing up Ojibwe on the Leech Lake Reservation in the 1950s: Margaret Treuer’s story read by her son, Anton, from his new book, “Ojibwe In Minneso...

Bought by KOJB 90.1 FM The eagle, Bois Forte Tribal Community Radio, and WTIP


  • Added: May 12, 2010
  • Length: 05:50
  • Purchases: 3
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Local historian, Barry Babcock, tells the story of how the young Ojibwe leader, Hole-In-The-Day, intervenes to save the Schoolcraft expedition in 1...

  • Added: May 12, 2010
  • Length: 13:54
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This includes John Latimer's Phenology Report and Talk Backs. And a story about Dogfish: Last march, Armas Yuhala trapped tons of the “rough fish” ...

  • Added: May 12, 2010
  • Length: 58:02
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Last march, Armas Yuhala trapped tons of the “rough fish” in the Mississippi near Cohasset. He sold them to fish markets in New York City.

  • Added: May 12, 2010
  • Length: 10:43
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A Field Guide To The Bait In Your Bucket. Fish biologist and author, Tom Dickson, talks about the fish we use to catch fish.

  • Added: May 12, 2010
  • Length: 07:35
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John Latimer shares his observations of the change of nature in our lives.

  • Added: May 12, 2010
  • Length: 12:30
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Did you believe in the tooth fairy? Did you wear braces? This week we’re taking up the topic of TEETH, as suggested by 4 year old KAXE member Iris....

  • Added: May 10, 2010
  • Length: 02:00:54
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We talk with KAXE Member Karen Lucachick from Sissebakwet - she isn't having a Ukrainian breakfast, but hotdogs (without buns)...

  • Added: May 10, 2010
  • Length: 08:53
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Before we learned to sit up right at the diner table and chew with our mouth closed, we were swinging through the trees and eating whatever we coul...

  • Added: May 10, 2010
  • Length: 03:00