WTIP

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North Shore Community Radio began broadcasting on April 29, 1998 from a small studio in the Arrowhead Center for the Arts in Grand Marais, Minnesota. WTIP’s home is in Minnesota’s most remote county, with some of the most pristine and beautiful environment in the United States. Although Cook County is our home geographically, WTIP serves all of the North Shore of Lake Superior, and inland, from Two Harbors, Minnesota to Thunder Bay, Ontario, as well as areas of the South Shore of Lake Superior in northern Wisconsin and Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. Our webstream also takes our programs all over the world.
 
North Shore Community Radio broadcasts locally-produced programs from the WTIP studios as well as national and international music, news and public affairs programming.
 
WTIP is a community station. Sources of revenue include listener-members, business underwriters, grants, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and other sources. However, the most important and valued source of revenue is our ever-growing group of listener-members.
 
Because WTIP serves some very remote wilderness areas of three States and one Province, our population base is small. We are supported by our listener-members, but we rely on our good friends who visit the area for expanding the membership group. Whether you are visiting for a day, a week, staying for the season or living in the WTIP listening area, we want you to become a member. You can take us home with you by ‘streaming us online through our website: www.wtip.org.
 

Series

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53 Pieces

Stories created by youth in and around Cook County Minnesota

  • From: WTIP
  • Updated: Jan 11, 2016

Latest Pieces

Caption: Eira, with Jim Ofthsun middle right
Eira (pronounce EH-ra) is a five-piece group from the Duluth area playing tunes from Ireland, Scotland, Newfoundland, and beyond. They recently rel...

  • Added: Dec 20, 2016
  • Length: 13:59
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Every year, students taking the U of MN intro to engineering class are charged with designing a robot that does something 'useful.' WTIP's Dave Ter...

  • Added: Dec 20, 2016
  • Length: 16:53
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The National Ice Core Laboratory near Denver is a really cool place. It's the repository for miles of ice that contains information about the plane...

Bought by KRZA


  • Added: Dec 20, 2016
  • Length: 17:20
  • Purchases: 1
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Gene LaFond & Amy Grillo have been writing and performing together since 2012. They made their way up the shore recently to join WTIP for their fir...

  • Added: Dec 13, 2016
  • Length: 40:53
Caption: giant sequoias, Credit: courtesy Wendy Baxter
The iconic giant sequoias are under stress from years of drought and climate change. Wendy Baxter, of the Dawson Lab at the University of Californi...

Bought by 'The Sea'


  • Added: Dec 13, 2016
  • Length: 19:10
  • Purchases: 1
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WTIP's Youth Radio Project has grown significantly since it's rebirth two years ago. Local media producer Patrick Knight works with over a dozen hi...

  • Added: Dec 09, 2016
  • Length: 08:15
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Fred Smith is a volunteer producer at WTIP North Shore Community Radio. Each week, he shares his perspectives through Wildersmith on the Gunflint.

  • Added: Dec 07, 2016
  • Length: 06:02
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Cook County's Plucked Up String Band made a return appearance on The Roadhouse. The band is: Will Moore, upright bass; Elliot Noyce, mandolin; Matt...

  • Added: Dec 06, 2016
  • Length: 42:11
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Bob King, creator of the Duluth News-Tribune's Astro Bob blog, has written a great new book about how to find planets, constellations, satellites, ...

Bought by KVSC


  • Added: Dec 06, 2016
  • Length: 18:13
  • Purchases: 1
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Beatrice Ojakangas is the author of 29 cookbooks and recognized in the James Beard Cookbook Hall of Fame. Her new memoir, "Homemade," is about grow...

  • Added: Dec 06, 2016
  • Length: 18:13