[2] Starting in the 1960s, a provincial government radio service called Northern News, broadcasting from Prince Albert, was hosted by its first producer Helga Reydon.

The program contained some relevant northern content and was aided by better reception due to the installation of the low-power FM relay transmitters in the north.

In 1983, the Government of Canada introduced the Northern Native Broadcast Access Program (NNBAP), funded and supported by the Department of Canadian Heritage.

A survey was conducted of the residents of northern Saskatchewan, the results of which gave the organizers a better idea of what Indigenous people wanted to hear on radio.

MBC has been a major contributor to APTN, producing 39 episodes of Heartbeat Of The Earth, a series for and about Saskatchewan's northern Indigenous peoples and their communities.

The Saskatchewan Association of Aboriginal Broadcasters, also known as SAAB, was founded in 1996 primarily through the efforts of MBC and the community station managers across the north.

SAAB has grown into a large cooperative entity encompassing services for all Indigenous broadcast outlets in Saskatchewan.