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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

Caption: Rock Harbor, Isle Royale
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Isle Royale, the small island laying about 15 miles offshore from Grand Portage, was once home to a thriving community of fishermen and their families, as well as resort and cabin visitors. Isle Royale has been the summer home for many generations. Those connections are explored in this series by WTIP's Rhonda Silence.

  • From: WTIP
  • Updated: Sep 25, 2018
Caption: This crew is sailing Lake Superior to raise awareness about climate change.
5 Pieces

Sea Change is a podcast that follows the adventures of the Gordon family and their students as they sail Lake Superior to raise awareness about the effects of climate change.

  • From: WTIP
  • Updated: Jun 23, 2016
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14 Pieces

Sounds and Sparks is a new feature here on WTIP that features Minnesota musicians telling the stories and meanings behind their latest songs and diving into their own creative process. Each feature has the artist going track-by-track down their latest release and telling the inspiration behind each song in their own voice.

  • From: WTIP
  • Updated: Sep 11, 2021
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10 Pieces

Sunny lives in Lake County, Minnesota, and is a regular commentator on WTIP North Shore Community Radio.

  • From: WTIP
  • Updated: Aug 20, 2015
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A series about dogs in Cook County and around the Lake Superior region. Hear stories about mushing, outdoor adventures. heroic dogs, and the humans who love and live with them.

  • From: WTIP
  • Updated: Apr 15, 2019
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3 Pieces

A series about dogs in Cook County and around the Lake Superior region.

  • From: WTIP
  • Updated: Apr 15, 2019
Caption: Lin Salisbury
112 Pieces

Lin Salisbury, bibliophile, and commentator on WTIP North Shore Community Radio regularly interviews authors.

  • From: WTIP
  • Updated: Nov 30, 2023
Caption: A Boundary Waters camper after the 1999 Blowdown event., Credit: Jim Cordes
4 Pieces

During the early-morning hours of July 4, 1999, a series of thunderstorms formed over portions of North and South Dakota. As the day moved along, the storms grew in strength. Some of the storms formed into a bow echo and began moving across Minnesota with damaging winds.

  • From: WTIP
  • Updated: May 29, 2019
Caption: Knife Lake
4 Pieces

Minnesota's North Shore, like the rest of the planet, is facing a changing climate. There are some who dispute the cause of why this is happening, but few can argue that temperatures are warming, including water temperatures on inland lakes, streams and rivers, and in Lake Superior. These changes to the environment will impact the fish that live in these treasured waters, as well as the many anglers who pursue them. WTIP created this project to cover not just the issues facing the Lake Superior North Shore watershed as the climate changes, but to provide awareness about the realities of these changes.

  • From: WTIP
  • Updated: Jan 24, 2019
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84 Pieces

A series of short features looking at the broad range of issues facing one of the world's largest resources: Lake Superior.

  • From: WTIP
  • Updated: Apr 08, 2015

Latest Pieces

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Lou Pignolet retired to Hovland about 10 years ago and took up woodturning. He's now an expert who makes gorgeous bowls and teaches at North House ...

  • Added: Jul 16, 2015
  • Length: 20:35
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Architect, author & 'cabinologist' Dale Mulfinger stopped by Studio A on a recent visit to the shore. He chatted with WTIP's Dick Swanson recently ...

  • Added: Jul 16, 2015
  • Length: 14:07
Caption: Portrait of Butch and his son, Joe D., in their fishing boat. Mural by David Gilsvik. , Credit: Beth Drost, National Park Service
Grand Portage Band member Butch Deschampe comes from a long line of fishermen, including his Grandfather Joe and his father Sam Deschampe. In this ...

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio, WGZS, and KKWE Niijii Radio


  • Added: Jul 16, 2015
  • Length: 07:12
  • Purchases: 3
Caption: Dr. Seth Moore radio-collars a moose
Governor Dayton recently instructed the DNR to discontinue collaring after a number of moose died as a result of the procedure. That decision has e...

  • Added: Jul 15, 2015
  • Length: 23:50
Caption: Amy Woschek Schmidt
Amy Woschek Schmidt is a published poet who lives in Hovland. When not writing poems, she works as a registered nurse at Sawtooth Mountain Clinic.

  • Added: Jul 14, 2015
  • Length: 08:28
Caption: Ruby-throated hummingbird, Credit: Catherine Mullhaupt on Flickr
Sunny lives in Lake County, Minnesota, and is a regular commentator on WTIP North Shore Community Radio. In this episode from July, summer has arri...

  • Added: Jul 13, 2015
  • Length: 05:35
Caption: Morning light and fall colors, Credit: Travis Novitsky
A variety of pollutants have recently turned up in some pristine northern Minnesota lakes and rivers. In this interview with producer Martha Marnoc...

  • Added: Jul 13, 2015
  • Length: 06:44
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North Shore fav Michael Monroe stopped by WTIP's Studio A recently to play a few songs from his most recent album, "Folk Legends," and to talk abo...

Bought by KVSC and KSRQ


  • Added: Jul 08, 2015
  • Length: 28:33
  • Purchases: 2
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North Shore bluesman Gordon Thorne stopped by WTIP's The Roadhouse recently for a few tunes... as well as conversation about everything from obscur...

  • Added: Jul 08, 2015
  • Length: 30:13
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Grand Marais artist Betsy Bowen visited Uganda in 2009 and 2010. While there, she met artists and taught art to kids. An exhibit of work by Ugandan...

  • Added: Jul 08, 2015
  • Length: 21:05