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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: Kristin DeArruda Wharton
6 Pieces

Kristin DeArruda Wharton is a resident of Cook County, Minnesota and a current fellow with the Bush Foundation. In 2017, DeArruda Wharton approached WTIP with the idea of creating a series of interviews focused on topics relevant to not just health professionals, but anyone who is facing issues related to their own health, and that of their loved ones.

  • From: WTIP
  • Updated: Sep 03, 2018
Caption: Dr. Seth Moore, Credit: Carah Thomas-Maskell
37 Pieces

Dr. Seth Moore leads the biology and environment departments at Grand Portage Trust Lands. He appears monthly on WTIP North Shore Community Radio in Grand Marais, MN. The interviews are around 5 minutes in length.

  • From: WTIP
  • Updated: Nov 06, 2012
Caption: WTIP Youth Radio Project, Credit: Carah Thomas
134 Pieces

WTIP's "Engaging Youth Through Radio" project features the work of YRP students. These short 3- to 5-minute features are by youth for youth, and explore issues and themes with a youth focus.

  • From: WTIP
  • Updated: Jul 08, 2014
Caption: Sugarloaf Cove Nature Center
4 Pieces

WTIP is exploring environmental stewardship with a series of short features that raise awareness of stewardship and how individuals and communities take part.

  • From: WTIP
  • Updated: Oct 07, 2014
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12 Pieces

Molly Hoffman became a birder following a 1970 course in Ornithology at the University of Minnesota, Duluth which was part of a degree in Biology. Molly created Field Notes to bring a realistic birding experience to a radio audience. By using a single recorder to capture bird sounds along with her voice narrative, Field Notes is able to simulate a guided birding adventure in the woods.

  • From: WTIP
  • Updated: Oct 26, 2010
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5 Pieces

The Grand Portage Band of Lake Superior Chippewa has created the CACHE Project, which stands for “Community Agriculture through Culture, Health and Education.” The acronym perfectly captures what the Grand Portage community is doing—coming together to share food from community gardens and to learn new and old ways of harvesting.

  • From: WTIP
  • Updated: Jul 04, 2018
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6 Pieces

Steve Ramberg lives on the Gunflint Trail with his family in northeastern Minnesota. In his ongoing audio series, Steve highlights life on the Trail. Steve has a knack for tackling big issues with a gentle touch.

  • From: WTIP
  • Updated: Sep 22, 2012
Caption: Gus and Maggie
8 Pieces

Gus' Wild Side are 5-7 minute features that explore our connections to nature in Minnesota and beyond.

  • From: WTIP
  • Updated: Apr 27, 2016
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4 Pieces

This series is a collaboration between WTIP and the Cook County Historical Society.

  • From: WTIP
  • Updated: Apr 24, 2019
Caption: Henry Mayhew in Grand Marais
2 Pieces

History Speaks is an exploration and presentation of aspects of our region's past.

  • From: WTIP
  • Updated: Jun 10, 2014

Latest Pieces

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The North Shore's Highway 61 hasn't always followed its current route. In this edition of Moments in Time, WTIP’s ongoing series, Barbara Livdahl o...

  • Added: Jun 24, 2015
  • Length: 06:21
Caption: Ruby-throated hummingbird, Credit: Mr. Bird Brain on Flickr
Gunflint territory continues its march toward the green of a spring landscape. In this edition of Wildersmith on the Gunflint, Fred notes the arriv...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Jun 24, 2015
  • Length: 06:10
  • Purchases: 1
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Willie Waldman brought a few friends, Clint Wagner on guitar and Bill Hansen on dobro, to WTIP's Wooden Boat Show broadcast at North House Folk Sch...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Jun 23, 2015
  • Length: 32:38
  • Purchases: 1
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Judy Zugish, a professional nurseryman and basketmaker, combines her two passions as a teacher of basketmaking. She talked with WTIP's Dick Swanson...

  • Added: Jun 23, 2015
  • Length: 15:50
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Angela Robins, former intern at North House Folk School in Grand Marais, was back in town to speak at the Wooden Boat Show about Japanese boatbuild...

  • Added: Jun 23, 2015
  • Length: 08:44
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Cook County, Minn., singer-songwriter Maria Nickolay stopped by The Roadhouse recently with her guitar to share original music, as well as stories ...

  • Added: Jun 23, 2015
  • Length: 30:14
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Visitors to northern forests in coming decades will probably see a very different set of trees as the climate warms, a recent U of MN study shows. ...

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


  • Added: Jun 23, 2015
  • Length: 19:58
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Hand-made rug by Lucy Caribou of Grand Marais, MN
Grand Portage band member Gloria Martineau was born and raised in the town of Grand Marais, MN. In this segment of Anishinaabe Way, she talks about...

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


  • Added: Jun 22, 2015
  • Length: 04:57
  • Purchases: 3
Caption: Veery, Credit: Biodiversity Heritage Library
Molly Hoffman is a volunteer producer at WTIP North Shore Community Radio. Each week she takes a look at a different bird from the north woods. Thi...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Jun 18, 2015
  • Length: 04:40
  • Purchases: 1
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Just outside of Finland, Minnesota, on the top of Lookout Mountain, is a Minnesota Superfund Site. Clean-up at this site has been an ongoing projec...

  • Added: Jun 17, 2015
  • Length: 06:53