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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.
 

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WTIP is committed to informing and connecting listeners with relevant news, public affairs, perspectives, and stories from Minnesota's North Shore community.

  • From: WTIP
  • Updated: Oct 07, 2011
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A project made in conjunction with WTIP and North House Folk School.

  • From: WTIP
  • Updated: Jul 28, 2017
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Minnesota's North Shore is home to a great deal of musical talent. WTIP North Shore Community Radio is dedicated to highlighting the area's musicians.

  • From: WTIP
  • Updated: Sep 20, 2011
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Phenologist Chel Anderson shares information and insights about the great outdoors in Northeastern Minnesota

  • From: WTIP
  • Updated: Nov 02, 2012
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Northern Sky is a 3- to 5-minute, twice-monthly feature that explores the stars, planets and constellations that are visible throughout the year in the northern Minnesota region. University of Minnesota science writer Deane Morrison provides tips on how to locate stars and planets, as well as the latest news on developments in space science and technology.

  • From: WTIP
  • Updated: Nov 15, 2013
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Nosey Rosey lives with Dave and Nancy Seaton and family on the Gunflint Trail in North Eastern Minnesota. Rosey has a special affinity for four-legged creatures, but is equally savvy about family, friends and human foibles.

  • From: WTIP
  • Updated: Oct 07, 2011
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Writer Jess Koski is a Grand Portage tribal member and dispatches his “Jessays,” from his home on the shore of Lake Superior, in Chi Oni Gaming.

  • From: WTIP
  • Updated: Jun 30, 2021
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Ada Igoe grew up in Minnesota’s North Woods and after temping in both London, England and the Twin Cities she realized the woods and community of Cook County would always be home.

  • From: WTIP
  • Updated: Apr 25, 2012
Caption: Shelby Gonzales with a saw-whet owl, Credit: Kate Nicoletti
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In this bite-size segment, WTIP North Shore Community Radio contributor Shelby Gonzalez explores the great outdoors with a sense of humor and a nose for strange stories, odd critters, and unusual pursuits.

  • From: WTIP
  • Updated: Jan 30, 2013
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Powering Down is a series that takes a look at Cook County residents who live "off the grid". It explores their choices to downsize or use alternative energy and the lifestyle changes, challenges, and boons that come with it.

  • From: WTIP
  • Updated: Mar 17, 2020

Latest Pieces

Caption: Ruffed grouse, Credit: Snowshoe Photography on Flickr
Animals are getting ready for winter, ruffed grouse are drumming, and leaves are changing color. In this edition of Wildersmith on the Gunflint, Fr...

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  • Added: Nov 11, 2015
  • Length: 04:58
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Cisco, Credit: NOAA Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory
There are many names for lake herring, but only one that’s truly correct. WTIP’s Jay Andersen talks with naturalist Chel Anderson about ciscoes.

Bought by KSRQ and Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota


  • Added: Nov 10, 2015
  • Length: 08:07
  • Purchases: 2
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Dave Seaton owns and runs Hungry Jack Outfitters, off the Gunflint Trail, with his wife, Nancy. He is also an accomplished luthier, or someone who ...

  • Added: Nov 10, 2015
  • Length: 13:53
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Patrick Coleman, senior curator & acquisitions librarian at the Minnesota Historical Society, stopped by the WTIP studios recently. He was in Gran...

  • Added: Nov 10, 2015
  • Length: 15:02
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Nov. 10 is the 40th anniversary of the sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald. It's also the only time each year that the Split Rock Lighthouse beacon i...

  • Added: Nov 10, 2015
  • Length: 12:50
Caption: Chairwoman Karen Diver
Karen Diver has been the Tribal Chair of the Fond du Lac Reservation since 2007. She was recently named Special Assistant to the President for Nati...

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio and WGZS


  • Added: Nov 10, 2015
  • Length: 06:58
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Sonny Meyers
Article 11 of the Treaty of 1854 provides for the retained rights to hunting, fishing and gathering of resources in lands ceded by Anishinaabe trib...

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  • Added: Nov 10, 2015
  • Length: 07:43
  • Purchases: 1
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Maria Nickolay of Hovland stopped by WTIP's Studio A Oct. 30 with her guitar and gorgeous voice. She played several original tunes and talked about...

  • Added: Nov 03, 2015
  • Length: 29:15
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Why do we enjoy being scared? Horror movies, amusement park rides, haunted houses...we love the even though (or because) they're frightening. Dr. M...

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  • Added: Nov 03, 2015
  • Length: 18:25
  • Purchases: 1
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Sunsets and sunrises can be spectacular in border country. In this edition of Wildersmith on the Gunflint, Fred enjoys the changing colors of fall ...

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  • Added: Oct 29, 2015
  • Length: 06:21
  • Purchases: 1