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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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58 Pieces

"Trail Time" by Marcia Roepke highlights events and phenology on the Gunflint Trail.

  • From: WTIP
  • Updated: Sep 21, 2021
Caption: Photo courtesy of Cook County Historical Society archives
14 Pieces

At age 20, Albert Bally left his college studies in Milwaukee to enlist in the U.S. Army. His letters home to Grand Marais over the next two years follow the highlights of America's World War I experience. With directness and sometimes humor, Al's letters illuminate the challenges of communication and the suspense faced by American families who waited weeks for every precious letter to make it home.

  • From: WTIP
  • Updated: Oct 24, 2017
Caption: Erik Redix
25 Pieces

Welcome to Anishinaabe Radio! The host is Erik Redix, Ojibwe Language Director at Oshki Ogimaag in Grand Portage. A bilingual approach to storytelling, the show features Ojibwe first speakers telling stories in English and Ojibwemowin—the Ojibwe Language.

  • From: WTIP
  • Updated: Sep 29, 2021
Caption: Aurora Storm, Credit: Travis Novitsky
41 Pieces

"Anishinaabe Way: Lives, Words and Stories of Ojibwe People" is a radio series by WTIP North Shore Community Radio, exploring the many facets of Ojibwe life. As part of the series you will hear the words and stories of Anishinaabe people, including artists, poets, doctors, scientists, elders and children.

  • From: WTIP
  • Updated: Sep 22, 2012
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12 Pieces

Cook County and the Grand Marais Minnesota area is filled with visual artists. This series spotlights some of them.

  • From: WTIP
  • Updated: Oct 19, 2012
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27 Pieces

WTIP provides access to area arts and culture through a variety of stories, interviews and features.

  • From: WTIP
  • Updated: Jun 29, 2012
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1 Piece

"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 lives, what they do to get by, and the contributions people make to the community through work

  • From: WTIP
  • Updated: Jan 04, 2013
Caption: Marcia Hyatt
269 Pieces

Each week, the Best of Ourselves explores what we can do to be intentional, creative and joyful in our lives.

  • From: WTIP
  • Updated: Mar 24, 2016
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From May to November, canoeing is the talk of the North Shore and the Boundary Waters area. Rightfully so, as the region is in the heart of canoe country. However, the opportunities for outdoor recreation in Cook County and the Lake Superior region are ample.

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

Although Cook County is a wonderful place to raise a family, like many places it is not without its challenges. There has been a great deal of discussion by government entities at all levels regarding the North Shore’s limited housing options. But another problem—perhaps, even more, pressing for young families—is the lack of childcare in the region.

  • From: WTIP
  • Updated: Jan 10, 2019

Latest Pieces

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Mini-golf may appear easy, but it’s not. Sterling Anderson and Shawn Neuwirth of WTIP’s Youth Radio Project spent an afternoon at the local mini-go...

  • Added: Aug 13, 2011
  • Length: 02:27
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Moving to a new town can be hard, but it was even harder for Sterling Anderson of WTIP’s Youth Radio Project. As an eleven-year old boy, leaving hi...

  • Added: Aug 13, 2011
  • Length: 02:15
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While many northeastern Minnesota residents embrace the isolation and privacy of the region's wild country, local teenagers sometime struggle with ...

Bought by Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota


  • Added: Aug 13, 2011
  • Length: 03:33
  • Purchases: 1
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Access to the internet access is a hot topic in rural northeastern Minnesota. Shawn Neuwirth of WTIP’s Youth Radio Project throws proverbial fuel o...

  • Added: Aug 13, 2011
  • Length: 02:07
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Do your children hang out with kids older than they are? This common occurrence often concerns parents. But what if kids are just trying to find fr...

  • Added: Aug 13, 2011
  • Length: 01:47
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While biking may be a quintessential summer activity, for WTIP Youth Radio Project Junior Shawn Neuwirth, it is a nightmare. Shawn has yet to bike ...

  • Added: Aug 13, 2011
  • Length: 02:59
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What makes summer so great? The answer is simple: freedom! In this commentary, Audrey Summers (no pun intended), with WTIP’s Youth Radio Project, s...

Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio, Spokane Public Radio, and WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Aug 13, 2011
  • Length: 03:10
  • Purchases: 3
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What’s the difference between welding and painting? How can one be considered a trade, while the other a fine art? Youth Radio Project junior Kayla...

  • Added: Aug 13, 2011
  • Length: 02:22
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Everyone knows how the Olympic Games can unite the world, but what about video games? In this commentary, Sterling Anderson of WTIP's Youth Radio ...

  • Added: Aug 13, 2011
  • Length: 01:48
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Now that the high school year is over, it’s really time to start working. Youth Radio Project senior Kayla Stacy loves summer. She loves the traffi...

Bought by KMXT


  • Added: Aug 12, 2011
  • Length: 02:10
  • Purchases: 1