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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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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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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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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
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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

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This feature is part of The Lake Superior Project, a series looking at a broad range of issues and topics surrounding Lake Superior, produced by WT...

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  • Added: Aug 17, 2012
  • Length: 06:26
  • Purchases: 3
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In an effort to understand more about what college students get out of their education, WTIP North Shore Community Radio's Youth Radio Project read...

  • Added: Aug 17, 2012
  • Length: 16:37
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Will today's youth be more successful than their parents? Michaela Peterson of WTIP North Shore Community Radio’s Youth Radio Project isn’t sure t...

  • Added: Aug 11, 2012
  • Length: 03:54
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Recently, you have probably heard a lot about how today's youth will not have as good of a life as their parents did. For Sterling Anderson of WTIP...

  • Added: Aug 11, 2012
  • Length: 02:38
Caption: First Stewards Symposium, Credit: National Congress of American Indians on Flickr
The First Stewards Symposium is a climate change forum in Washington D.C. for tribes from across the United States to talk about the issue and how ...

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  • Added: Aug 11, 2012
  • Length: 07:00
  • Purchases: 2
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The U of MN Tourism Center conducted a study recently to look at how travel among households with school-aged children is affected when school star...

  • Added: Aug 09, 2012
  • Length: 14:52
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In America, we have many different traditions. Thanksgiving, the Olympics, the Superbowl. But how do we know when traditions should end? WTIP youth...

  • Added: Aug 03, 2012
  • Length: 03:07
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The tradition of Christmas isn’t something you think about much during the summertime. However, in this commentary, youth producer Michaela Peterso...

  • Added: Aug 03, 2012
  • Length: 05:03
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The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) recently released a report on the growing domestic use of unmanned aircraft for surveillance. Chuck Samue...

  • Added: Aug 02, 2012
  • Length: 27:44
Caption: Flowers near Kadunce Creek, Credit: Stephan Hoglund
We’re definitely into summer and the woods and roadsides, as well as lakes and ponds are blooming. In this edition of North Woods Naturalist, Jay A...

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  • Added: Jul 28, 2012
  • Length: 07:47
  • Purchases: 1