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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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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
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A project made in conjunction with WTIP and North House Folk School.

  • From: WTIP
  • Updated: Jul 28, 2017
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Minnesota's North Shore is home to a great deal of musical talent. WTIP North Shore Community Radio is dedicated to highlighting the area's musicians.

  • From: WTIP
  • Updated: Sep 20, 2011
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Phenologist Chel Anderson shares information and insights about the great outdoors in Northeastern Minnesota

  • From: WTIP
  • Updated: Nov 02, 2012
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Northern Sky is a 3- to 5-minute, twice-monthly feature that explores the stars, planets and constellations that are visible throughout the year in the northern Minnesota region. University of Minnesota science writer Deane Morrison provides tips on how to locate stars and planets, as well as the latest news on developments in space science and technology.

  • From: WTIP
  • Updated: Nov 15, 2013
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Nosey Rosey lives with Dave and Nancy Seaton and family on the Gunflint Trail in North Eastern Minnesota. Rosey has a special affinity for four-legged creatures, but is equally savvy about family, friends and human foibles.

  • From: WTIP
  • Updated: Oct 07, 2011
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Writer Jess Koski is a Grand Portage tribal member and dispatches his “Jessays,” from his home on the shore of Lake Superior, in Chi Oni Gaming.

  • From: WTIP
  • Updated: Jun 30, 2021
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Ada Igoe grew up in Minnesota’s North Woods and after temping in both London, England and the Twin Cities she realized the woods and community of Cook County would always be home.

  • From: WTIP
  • Updated: Apr 25, 2012
Caption: Shelby Gonzales with a saw-whet owl, Credit: Kate Nicoletti
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In this bite-size segment, WTIP North Shore Community Radio contributor Shelby Gonzalez explores the great outdoors with a sense of humor and a nose for strange stories, odd critters, and unusual pursuits.

  • From: WTIP
  • Updated: Jan 30, 2013
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Powering Down is a series that takes a look at Cook County residents who live "off the grid". It explores their choices to downsize or use alternative energy and the lifestyle changes, challenges, and boons that come with it.

  • From: WTIP
  • Updated: Mar 17, 2020

Latest Pieces

Caption: Trapper's Cabin, Credit: c. Cook County Historical Society
The eleventh segment of “Walking the Old Road: The Story of Chippewa City and the Grand Marais Chippewa” pieces together first-hand accounts to exp...

Bought by KSRQ, Bois Forte Tribal Community Radio, and WGDR


  • Added: Nov 08, 2010
  • Length: 07:00
  • Purchases: 3
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The big October windstorm blew down trees and brought an end to drought conditions along the North Shore. Jay Andersen, with WTIP North Shore Commu...

  • Added: Nov 08, 2010
  • Length: 07:02
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As the fall migration comes to a close, there are still some birds winging their way through the North Country. Jay Andersen, with WTIP North Shore...

Bought by Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota


  • Added: Nov 08, 2010
  • Length: 05:47
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Bakers and their Bread, Credit: Cook County Historical Society
In the second installment of The Legacy of the Civilian Conservation Corps, former CCC enrollees and construction foreman recall their experiences ...

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


  • Added: Oct 25, 2010
  • Length: 07:58
  • Purchases: 2
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As humans are tightening up their homes for winter, animals in the woods are getting ready for snow as well. Jay Andersen, with WTIP North Shore Co...

Bought by Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota


  • Added: Oct 25, 2010
  • Length: 06:38
  • Purchases: 1
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Brook trout are a native Minnesota fish and are found particularly in the northeast. Jay Andersen, with WTIP North Shore Community Radio, talks wit...

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  • Added: Oct 12, 2010
  • Length: 06:35
  • Purchases: 1
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Vicki Biggs-Anderson shares her views on life inspired by happenings on her rural Minnesota homestead where she keeps busy tending to her many anim...

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  • Added: Oct 12, 2010
  • Length: 05:32
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Chippewa Church Burial, Credit: Courtesy of the Cook County Historical Society
The tenth segment of “Walking the Old Road: The Story of Chippewa City and the Grand Marais Chippewa” pieces together first-hand accounts to explor...

Bought by Bois Forte Tribal Community Radio, KSRQ, WGDR, and WDSE


  • Added: Oct 08, 2010
  • Length: 07:00
  • Purchases: 4
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With fall in the air, a moose’s thoughts turn to mating. Jay Andersen, with WTIP North Shore Community Radio, talks with local phenologist Chel And...

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


  • Added: Oct 05, 2010
  • Length: 06:33
  • Purchases: 3
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As winter approaches beavers get busy building and storing. Spiders in an attempt to distance themselves from all the young they’ve birthed, take t...

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  • Added: Sep 28, 2010
  • Length: 06:44
  • Purchases: 1