NCCR (North Country Community Radio) reaches new heights by Tara Giles March 26, 2018 [email protected] LITTLETON- North Country Community Radio, better known as NCCR, has reached a new level of growth, the way founder Nate Alberts always thought it would when he...

It’s tiny and, at 100 watts, a bit underpowered, but what North Country Community Radio lacks in size it more than makes up for by playing some of the coolest, most eclectic music found anywhere. Believed to be the only all-volunteer, commercial-free, entirely independent community radio station in New Hampshire, NCCR, which has its studio at Mount Eustis Commons, broadcasts 24/7 as WZNC-LP 99.9FM from the top of the Colonial Theatre in Bethlehem. The signal reaches listeners within a 10- to 15-mile radius of Franconia Notch. The programming is also streamed online via TuneIn. Now five years old, NCCR was founded in February 2012 by Nate Alberts.

In the summer of his sophomore year of high school, Nate Alberts visited his brother, a rock climber and rock musician in Crested Butte, Colorado. While there, he got a taste of the scene surrounding KBUT, the local community radio station. Something clicked inside him. Back in his junior-year economics class, he did a project on what it would take to start a community radio station in Littleton, the unofficial capital of the “North Country” region of New Hampshire he called home.