WTIP

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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: Kristin DeArruda Wharton
6 Pieces

Kristin DeArruda Wharton is a resident of Cook County, Minnesota and a current fellow with the Bush Foundation. In 2017, DeArruda Wharton approached WTIP with the idea of creating a series of interviews focused on topics relevant to not just health professionals, but anyone who is facing issues related to their own health, and that of their loved ones.

  • From: WTIP
  • Updated: Sep 03, 2018
Caption: Dr. Seth Moore, Credit: Carah Thomas-Maskell
37 Pieces

Dr. Seth Moore leads the biology and environment departments at Grand Portage Trust Lands. He appears monthly on WTIP North Shore Community Radio in Grand Marais, MN. The interviews are around 5 minutes in length.

  • From: WTIP
  • Updated: Nov 06, 2012
Caption: WTIP Youth Radio Project, Credit: Carah Thomas
134 Pieces

WTIP's "Engaging Youth Through Radio" project features the work of YRP students. These short 3- to 5-minute features are by youth for youth, and explore issues and themes with a youth focus.

  • From: WTIP
  • Updated: Jul 08, 2014
Caption: Sugarloaf Cove Nature Center
4 Pieces

WTIP is exploring environmental stewardship with a series of short features that raise awareness of stewardship and how individuals and communities take part.

  • From: WTIP
  • Updated: Oct 07, 2014
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12 Pieces

Molly Hoffman became a birder following a 1970 course in Ornithology at the University of Minnesota, Duluth which was part of a degree in Biology. Molly created Field Notes to bring a realistic birding experience to a radio audience. By using a single recorder to capture bird sounds along with her voice narrative, Field Notes is able to simulate a guided birding adventure in the woods.

  • From: WTIP
  • Updated: Oct 26, 2010
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5 Pieces

The Grand Portage Band of Lake Superior Chippewa has created the CACHE Project, which stands for “Community Agriculture through Culture, Health and Education.” The acronym perfectly captures what the Grand Portage community is doing—coming together to share food from community gardens and to learn new and old ways of harvesting.

  • From: WTIP
  • Updated: Jul 04, 2018
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6 Pieces

Steve Ramberg lives on the Gunflint Trail with his family in northeastern Minnesota. In his ongoing audio series, Steve highlights life on the Trail. Steve has a knack for tackling big issues with a gentle touch.

  • From: WTIP
  • Updated: Sep 22, 2012
Caption: Gus and Maggie
8 Pieces

Gus' Wild Side are 5-7 minute features that explore our connections to nature in Minnesota and beyond.

  • From: WTIP
  • Updated: Apr 27, 2016
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4 Pieces

This series is a collaboration between WTIP and the Cook County Historical Society.

  • From: WTIP
  • Updated: Apr 24, 2019
Caption: Henry Mayhew in Grand Marais
2 Pieces

History Speaks is an exploration and presentation of aspects of our region's past.

  • From: WTIP
  • Updated: Jun 10, 2014

Latest Pieces

Caption: Boreal chickadee, Credit: Julio Mulero
Molly Hoffman is a volunteer producer at WTIP North Shore Community Radio. Each week she takes a look at a different bird from the north woods. Thi...

Bought by KQRU FM LP and KSRQ


  • Added: Sep 03, 2015
  • Length: 05:45
  • Purchases: 2
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Growing tomatoes in the north woods can be a challenge. But the reward is great when all the variables of gardening in a cold climate come together...

  • Added: Sep 03, 2015
  • Length: 06:45
Caption: Dorothy Dora Whipple, Credit: Wendy Makoons Geniusz
"Chi-mewinzha" means "A Long Time Ago" in the Ojibwe language. It's also the title of a book of bilingual Ojibwe stories by Leech Lake elder Doroth...

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio


  • Added: Sep 03, 2015
  • Length: 07:49
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Parula warbler, Credit: John Benson on Flickr
Molly Hoffman is a volunteer producer at WTIP North Shore Community Radio. Each week she takes a look at a different bird from the north woods. Thi...

Bought by KSFR and KSRQ


  • Added: Sep 01, 2015
  • Length: 06:08
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Canada warbler, Credit: John Benson on Flickr
Molly Hoffman is a volunteer producer at WTIP North Shore Community Radio. Each week she takes a look at a different bird from the north woods. Thi...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Sep 01, 2015
  • Length: 04:32
  • Purchases: 1
From: WTIP
Series: Field Notes
Caption: Sedge wren, Credit: Cletus Lee on Flickr
Molly Hoffman is a volunteer producer at WTIP North Shore Community Radio. Each week she takes a look at a different bird from the north woods. Thi...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Sep 01, 2015
  • Length: 04:30
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Eastern phoebe fledglings
Molly Hoffman is a volunteer producer at WTIP North Shore Community Radio. Each week she takes a look at a different bird from the north woods. Thi...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Sep 01, 2015
  • Length: 05:25
  • Purchases: 1
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It’s a small spider that hides in plain view -- it can because it changes color. WTIP’s Jay Andersen talks with naturalist Chel Anderson about crab...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Aug 31, 2015
  • Length: 07:03
  • Purchases: 1
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The yellow dust you’ve been wiping off your outdoor furniture or grill is really pine pollen, and there’s a good deal more to it than meets the eye...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Aug 31, 2015
  • Length: 07:01
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Luna moth, Credit: Jay Huggins on Flickr
They are one of our most striking – and hard to find -- moths. WTIP’s Jay Andersen talks with naturalist Chel Anderson about the large, green luna ...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Aug 31, 2015
  • Length: 07:32
  • Purchases: 1