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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51 Pieces

Phenology is the rhythmic, biological nature of events as they relate to climate.

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10 Pieces

Power in the Wilderness: Dramatized episodes about Iron Range historical figure Victor Powers.

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216 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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Independent audio producer Leah Lemm featured Shirley Nordrum on KAXE’s "Northern Voices" – celebrating ties to Minnesota’s northland, a series on ...

  • Added: May 30, 2023
  • Length: 21:28
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Respect for Pacific Islander culture and the environment is interwoven into a youth production of "Disney’s Moana Jr." The organization connected w...

  • Added: May 30, 2023
  • Length: 17:30
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The black bear population in most of the state is steady or slowly increasing, Tri said, after bottoming out at about 12,000 animals in 2013. Thirt...

Bought by WGZS


  • Added: May 30, 2023
  • Length: 16:09
  • Purchases: 1
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Taste of the Arts offers two days of self-guided adventure around rural Beltrami County where locations offer mixed disciplines of music, arts demo...

  • Added: May 26, 2023
  • Length: 16:09

  • Added: May 25, 2023
  • Length: 11:14
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Akre Homestead is a fifth-generation farm in Hill City producing animals, meat and soap products at northern Minnesota farmers markets and the Nigh...

  • Added: May 24, 2023
  • Length: 21:05
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Centerstage Minnesota featuring a conversation with Laura Witney about the Duluth Dylan Fest and an interview with Meghan Kreidler, lead singer of ...

Bought by WGZS


  • Added: May 23, 2023
  • Length: 01:48:23
  • Purchases: 1
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It’s garage sailing season this week on Stay Human. Tune in for some prize finds and some useful tips on how to re-use it – whatever it is. We’ll...

Bought by KICI Iowa City


  • Added: May 23, 2023
  • Length: 59:52
  • Purchases: 1

  • Added: May 23, 2023
  • Length: 10:47
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Marva Harms spent a lifetime as both teacher and student. Her current exhibit at the MacRostie Art Center celebrates light, color, impressionism an...

  • Added: May 23, 2023
  • Length: 07:10