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.
 

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Caption: Dancing Sky Over the Spirit Tree, Credit: Travis Novitsky
“People celebrate their homelands in different ways.” For photographer Travis Novitsky, this means spending a lot of time out of doors with a camer...

  • Added: Feb 03, 2012
  • Length: 00:07:16
Caption: Black bear
True hibernators and especially black bears, are giving birth this time of year. They have a special feature that helps them birth in winter. Jay A...

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  • Added: Jan 26, 2012
  • Length: 00:07:11
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Caption: Coal-fired power plants are the largest source of mercury emissions worldwide. , Credit: Wikimedia Commons
According to scientists, mercury levels in the environment are increasing at a rapid rate. Dr. Seth Moore talks about mercury and the role of compa...

  • Added: Jan 24, 2012
  • Length: 00:07:47
Caption: Coal-fired power plants are the largest source of mercury emissions worldwide., Credit: Wikimedia Commons
According to scientists, mercury levels in the environment are increasing at a rapid rate. Dr. Seth Moore talks about mercury and its effects on fi...

  • Added: Jan 24, 2012
  • Length: 00:05:03
Caption: Logo by Lauryl Loberg, Credit: T. Lawrence, GLFC
One of the biggest issues facing Lake Superior, and all of the Great Lakes, is invasive species. Out of several exotic species that have invaded La...

  • Added: Jan 20, 2012
  • Length: 00:06:15
Caption: Male pine grosbeak
Unlike their raucous evening grosbeak relatives, pine grosbeaks are calm, melodious and are generally better mannered. Jay Andersen of WTIP North S...

  • Added: Jan 17, 2012
  • Length: 00:08:02
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Lake Superior is undeniably one of the world's largest resources. It's the biggest freshwater lake in the world by surface area, and it holds 10 pe...

  • Added: Jan 10, 2012
  • Length: 00:08:06
Caption: Bobcat
The Arrowhead has three large cats, and one of them seems to be more apparent this winter. Jay Andersen of WTIP North Shore Community Radio spoke t...

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  • Added: Jan 10, 2012
  • Length: 00:07:06
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Will a nuclear waste storage facility be constructed in the Lake Superior Basin? The answer is: possibly. Canada’s Nuclear Waste Management Organiz...

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  • Added: Jan 04, 2012
  • Length: 00:05:04
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Caption: Grand Portage Native Fish Hatchery, Credit: Grand Portage Trust Lands
The Grand Portage Band of Lake Superior Chippewa is working to restore native fish species to Lake Superior and inland lakes on the reservation. Th...

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  • Added: Dec 27, 2011
  • Length: 00:06:47
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Caption: Grand Portage Native Fish Hatchery, Credit: Photo courtesy Grand Portage Trust Lands
The Grand Portage Band of Lake Superior Chippewa is working to restore native fish species to Lake Superior and inland lakes on the reservation. Th...

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  • Added: Dec 27, 2011
  • Length: 00:05:29
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Caption: Winter in the wilderness
We’re coming to the end of the year, and there are plenty of changes and activities to look for when we’re out on winter walks. Jay Andersen of WTI...

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  • Added: Dec 20, 2011
  • Length: 00:06:45
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Caption: Mink by the lakeshore
There’s a very busy member of the weasel family that populates our lakeshores and streams. Jay Andersen of WTIP North Shore Community Radio spoke t...

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  • Added: Dec 13, 2011
  • Length: 00:05:50
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Caption: Low stream
This year, particularly the last few months have been dry in Northern Minnesota. Dry to the point of drought. Jay Andersen of WTIP North Shore Comm...

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  • Added: Dec 07, 2011
  • Length: 00:07:26
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Caption: Flying squirrel
They’re small, secretive soft and they can fly – or at least glide a good distance. Jay Andersen of WTIP North Shore Community Radio spoke to loca...

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  • Added: Nov 29, 2011
  • Length: 00:07:26
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Caption: Early North Shore commercial fisherman with children and lake trout., Credit: Photo courtesy of the North Shore Commercial Fishing Museum
Walter Sve is a 3rd generation North Shore commercial fisherman based near Two Harbors, Minnesota. In this segment of WTIP North Shore Community Ra...

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  • Added: Nov 28, 2011
  • Length: 00:10:38
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Caption: Autum willow
The woods and wetlands are full of willow species. One of them keeps its catkins well into winter – and that’s a good way to identify them. Jay And...

  • Added: Nov 23, 2011
  • Length: 00:06:55
Caption: Lake Superior herring
When Scandinavian immigrants came to the north shore, they brought with them remembrances of herring fishing in the oceans. Lake Superior herring a...

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  • Added: Nov 15, 2011
  • Length: 00:07:12
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Caption: Evening grosbreak feeding young
For years evening grosbeaks have been common at local birdfeeders. Not so much recently. Is the decline just a cycle or a major change for these co...

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  • Added: Nov 08, 2011
  • Length: 00:07:10
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Caption: Stand of birch
The paper birch is an iconic symbol of the north shore and north woods. Jay Andersen of WTIP North Shore Community Radio spoke to local naturalist ...

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  • Added: Nov 01, 2011
  • Length: 00:07:37
  • Purchases: 1