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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Small steps you can make that will help you live greener: re-useable shopping bags, re-purpose items creatively, buy less packaging and processed f...

  • Added: Jul 01, 2015
  • Length: 03:47
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5 major mistakes to avoid with your personal finances: retirement, debt, spending, insurance and paying attention.

  • Added: Jul 01, 2015
  • Length: 03:38
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Ann Meaney is a sculptor from St. Paul. She talks with John Bauer about her art and the subject of suicide.

Bought by KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio


  • Added: Jun 30, 2015
  • Length: 07:59
  • Purchases: 1
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Part 2 of John Bauer's conversation with Marley Kaul about creating art for healing and mental illness.

  • Added: Jun 30, 2015
  • Length: 07:20
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John Bauer talks with Bemidji artist, Marley Kaul about the piece he painted in honor of John's daughter, Megan.

  • Added: Jun 30, 2015
  • Length: 09:53
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Part 2: John Bauer continues his conversation with sculptur Ann Meaney and what life is like dealing with her daughter's mental illness.

Bought by KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio


  • Added: Jun 30, 2015
  • Length: 07:20
  • Purchases: 1
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Part 2: John Bauer continues his discussion with Bemidji students/artists: Callie Benson, Ashley Bevins and Callie Wilson about what it was like to...

Bought by KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio


  • Added: Jun 30, 2015
  • Length: 05:46
  • Purchases: 1
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John Bauer talks with Bemidji students/artists: Callie Benson, Ashley Bevins and Callie Wilson about what it was like to address suicide in their art.

Bought by KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio


  • Added: Jun 30, 2015
  • Length: 08:32
  • Purchases: 1
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Presented by Northern Community Radio and Aaron Brown, The Great Northern Radio Show blends the classic model of a radio variety show with some mod...

Bought by WDSE and WTIP


  • Added: Jun 23, 2015
  • Length: 01:57:49
  • Purchases: 2
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Poet, Athena Kildegaard, lives in prairie pothole country, her term for Morris, Minnesota, where she's a lecturer at the University of Minnesota. S...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Jun 17, 2015
  • Length: 01:37
  • Purchases: 1