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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: This crew is sailing Lake Superior to raise awareness about climate change.
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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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82 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
Caption: Gunflint CCC Camp, Credit: Cook County Historical Society
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The Civilian Conservation Corps or CCC began in the spring of 1933, started by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt in response to the stock market crash of 1929 and the onset of the Great Depression. In this series, WTIP North Shore Community Radio explores the legacy left behind by the CCC and the workers who participated in the program.

  • From: WTIP
  • Updated: Apr 16, 2011

Latest Pieces

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Fingerstyle blues guitarist Gordon Thorne of Finland, Minn., stopped by WTIP's The Roadhouse recently to chat and laugh with Buck Benson & Dick Swa...

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  • Added: Jul 30, 2013
  • Length: 39:36
  • Purchases: 1
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WTIP's Buck Benson & Dick Swanson spoke recently with Shawn Perich, publisher of North Shore Highway 61, about the "Grand Marais renaissance" he se...

  • Added: Jul 30, 2013
  • Length: 22:22
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Dr. Jeremy Bassis, assistant professor of atmospheric, oceanic & space sciences at the Univeristy of Michigan, joined WTIP's Dick Swanson recently ...

  • Added: Jul 30, 2013
  • Length: 17:53
Caption: Dr. Seth Moore radio collars a moose at Grand Portage., Credit: Grand Portage Trust Lands
Dr. Seth Moore is a wildlife biologist with the Grand Portage Band of Lake Superior Chippewa, and a regular guest on WTIP North Shore Community Rad...

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  • Added: Jul 25, 2013
  • Length: 05:51
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Dr. Seth Moore, Credit: Grand Portage Trust Lands
Dr. Seth Moore is a wildlife biologist with the Grand Portage Band of Lake Superior Chippewa, and a regular guest on WTIP North Shore Community Rad...

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  • Added: Jul 25, 2013
  • Length: 06:19
  • Purchases: 2
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WTIP's Buck Benson & Ann Possis recently welcomed the EverGreen Grass Band to Studio A. The four-piece group (banjo, mandolin, guitar & bass guitar...

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  • Added: Jul 24, 2013
  • Length: 28:56
  • Purchases: 1
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WTIP's Buck Benson chatted recently with Emma Tufts, mother of Bobby Tufts, the 4-year-old mayor of Dorset, Minn. Although he can't fix traffic ti...

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  • Added: Jul 23, 2013
  • Length: 11:26
  • Purchases: 2
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Dr. Edward Laskowski, co-director of the Mayo Clinic Sports Medicine Center, shares his ideas about the recent trend toward very short, intense wor...

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  • Added: Jul 23, 2013
  • Length: 14:42
  • Purchases: 1
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Audrey Summers of WTIP North Shore Community Radio's Youth Radio Project interviewed Dr. Diane Levin, Professor of Early Childhood Education at Whe...

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  • Added: Jul 23, 2013
  • Length: 19:58
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Students at Concordia Language Camps, Credit: MNKaren on Flickr
In July, Youth Radio Project producer Finn Gerry of WTIP North Shore Community Radio went to a Concordia Language Camp near Bemidji, Minnesota. For...

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  • Added: Jul 19, 2013
  • Length: 06:19
  • Purchases: 1