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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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3 Pieces

In the Field is a radio series dedicated to exploring people’s lives and the contributions people make to our shared cultural legacy through work.

  • From: WTIP
  • Updated: Apr 17, 2023
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15 Pieces

WTIP is taking a deeper look at who we are as a community. Part of the effort is our commitment to learn more about the history of where we live here on the North Shore—from a time long before the first towns were established and the first European settlers arrived.

  • From: WTIP
  • Updated: Oct 06, 2021
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12 Pieces

Cilla Walford is a transplant from England who now lives in Grand Marais, Minnesota “Lady and the Scamp” begins when Cilla decides to take a sabbatical from her teaching job and take her ancient dog, Sarah on a few last adventures.

  • From: WTIP
  • Updated: Feb 08, 2019
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10 Pieces

Lake County Journal is a monthly program featuring the culture and voices of Lake County, Minnesota.

  • From: WTIP
  • Updated: Dec 16, 2014
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2 Pieces

This project focuses on the diverse cultural and historical aspects of life in the rich outdoor setting on the North Shore. It explores the history and current methods of hunting and trapping in the region.

  • From: WTIP
  • Updated: Feb 11, 2020
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12 Pieces

WTIP North Shore Community Radio’s Local Music Project is a monthly program highlighting some of the many talented musicians that live and perform around the North Shore of Lake Superior. Each half-hour program will explore the artist’s roots, musical inspiration, and influences through in-depth interviews and examples of their music.

  • From: WTIP
  • Updated: Sep 14, 2012
Caption: Vicki Biggs-Anderson
54 Pieces

Vicki lives with her husband, Paul, on a nearly 100-year-old homestead in Colvill, just North of Grand Marais, Minnesota. She shares this special place with six goats, one guard llama, about two dozen laying hens, a few difficult geese and ducks, seven angora rabbits, a house cat and one yellow Lab. In this series, Vicki shares her experiences and adventures in this magnetic place.

  • From: WTIP
  • Updated: May 18, 2018
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18 Pieces

Joni Peterson produces these monthly spotlights that focus on some of the many women singers, songwriters, and musicians who have roots in Minnesota.

  • From: WTIP
  • Updated: Sep 21, 2021
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17 Pieces

The North Shore is home to a rich history and diverse culture. In Moments in Time, WTIP North Shore Community Radio speaks with members of the community and region about their memories from different periods of our region's past to help foster an appreciation and understanding of the community in which we find ourselves today.

  • From: WTIP
  • Updated: Oct 18, 2012
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6 Pieces

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

Latest Pieces

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Ever feel like your life is a nightmare that you can't wake up from? WTIP Youth Radio Project producer Czarina Crow sometimes does. In this feature...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Jan 11, 2013
  • Length: :59
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Logo by Lauryl Loberg, Credit: Audun K on Flickr
At 31,700 square miles, Lake Superior is the largest freshwater lake by surface area in the world. It’s hard to imagine that ever changing. But on ...

Bought by WRNC-LP, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, KSRQ, Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota, and KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: Jan 04, 2013
  • Length: 07:10
  • Purchases: 5
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WTIP's Buck Benson visited Dec. 28 with Sam Cook, longtime outdoors writer for the Duluth News-Tribune, about significant events and developments i...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Jan 02, 2013
  • Length: 30:21
  • Purchases: 1
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WTIP's Buck Benson chatted recently with Elizabeth Foy Larsen, co-author of "Unbored: The Essential Field Guide to Serious Fun, " which the (Minnea...

Bought by KVSC and KSRQ


  • Added: Jan 02, 2013
  • Length: 19:04
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Joshua Lindstrom of Fika Coffee, Credit: Carah Thomas
"Behind the Work" is a regular feature on WTIP North Shore Community Radio in Grand Marais, MN. The series is dedicated to exploring people’s live...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Jan 02, 2013
  • Length: 07:09
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Laura with pet moose , Credit: Cook County Historical Society
Laura Alice Hogeboom Harriman was a true pioneer; a woman in the wilderness. Hard and exhausting as life was for early settlers in Hovland, Minneso...

Bought by KVSC and KSRQ


  • Added: Dec 29, 2012
  • Length: 29:19
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Dr. Seth Moore - radio collaring a moose at Grand Portage
Dr. Seth Moore leads the Biology and Environment departments at Grand Portage Trust Lands and is a regular contributor to WTIP North Shore Communit...

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


  • Added: Dec 27, 2012
  • Length: 09:49
  • Purchases: 2
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Czarina Crow is a WTIP Youth Radio Project producer, high school student and poet. In this feature, she shares a poem about graduating high school ...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Dec 21, 2012
  • Length: 01:16
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Susan Zimmerman
Susan Zimmerman is a Grand Portage band member who spent her early childhood on Hungry Jack Lake. She is an avid hunter, fisherwoman, and wild ric...

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio, KKWE Niijii Radio, KKWE Niijii Radio, Bois Forte Tribal Community Radio, Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota and more


  • Added: Dec 21, 2012
  • Length: 06:19
  • Purchases: 6
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What would you take with you if December 21 was the end of the world as we know it? WTIP's Youth Radio Project wanted to find out. So, we took to t...

Bought by XRAY.fm and KSRQ


  • Added: Dec 21, 2012
  • Length: 02:29
  • Purchases: 2