The Beat: ‘In Minnesota, poetry matters’
The Beat, according to NCR’s website is “Northern Community Radio’s daily reminder that, in Minnesota, poetry matters, and Minnesota poets are proving that every day.”

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The Beat, according to NCR’s website is “Northern Community Radio’s daily reminder that, in Minnesota, poetry matters, and Minnesota poets are proving that every day.”

From farm reports and football games broadcast in Morse code to education for homebound kids during the polio epidemic and from Garrison Keillor’s radio roots to being one of the reasons Rolling Stone magazine thinks the U of M rocks…

UMD student Rick McLean broadcasts Friday from a makeshift studio in an ice house on Fish Lake while Sheamus Johnson hooks a CD on his fishing line.

People still like to listen to the radio broadcasts of live shows where the actors read from scripts and the sound effects man tries to keep pace. Just look at the popularity of “Prairie Home Companion.”

Either Aaron Brown got the memo from mother nature early, or he’s simply seen enough northern Minnesota months of March to know what to expect.

In remote stretches of the Midwest, native residents are broadcasting their own unique takes on music, culture, and the state of the world.

KUMD, the college radio station for University of Minnesota-Duluth, will be spotlighted on "College Radio Countdown," a new program airing on mtvU, an affiliate network of MTV.

Lakeland Public Television spent some time with ampers stations KAXE and KBXE. Watch the video and meet some of the great people behind the Northern Community Radio stations.
