Station Affiliations

WTIP is affiliated with Independent Public Radio of Minnesota (IPR). IPR is the second largest public radio network in the state of Minnesota and one of the largest public radio networks of its kind in the United States. It consists of 12 independently licensed and managed, locally responsive, community-based public radio stations in Minnesota.

The IPR Office:
525 Park Street, Suite 310
St. Paul, MN 55103

Other community stations affiliated with IPR include:

KAXE ~ Grand Rapids, MN
KBEM ~ Minneapolis, MN
KFAI ~ Minneapolis, MN
KMOJ ~ Minneapolis, MN
KMSU ~ Mankato, MN
KQAL ~ Winona, MN
KSRQ ~ Thief River Falls, MN
KUMD ~ Duluth, MN
KUMM ~ Morris, MN
KUOM ~ Minneapolis, MN
KVSC ~ St. Cloud, MN

These stations represent a diversity in community radio programming (particularly music and cultural programming) unheard of in most states. These stations reach a very diverse audience of all ages. KFAI alone has programming in 13 different languages!

WTIP Staff


Deb “Radio Diva” Benedict Station Manager	Roger Linehan Program Director

Barbara Jean Meyers News and Public Affairs Director	Jeff “Admiral - just not on a Dragonboat” Nemitz Engineer Consultant

Melanie Steele Development Director	Jana Berka Administrative Assistant

Cathy Quinn
Music Director

Jay Andersen
News Reporter

EEO Public File Report

EEO Public File Report

For the 12-month period starting 12/1/07 and ending 11/30/08

Prepared by Deb Benedict, Station Manager

Cook County Community Radio

This report covers:

Call Sign: WTIP

Facility ID #: 55568

Type of station: Community-Educational FM

Location: Grand Marais, Minnesota

A. The following is a list of all vacancies for full-time jobs during the previous 12 months:

Job Title Date of Opening Date Filled

None

B. During the previous 12 months, the following recruitment sources were contacted as vacancies for full-time jobs opened. Those with an asterisk were organizations that requested to be contacted as job openings occurred:

Recruitment Source Address Contact Person Phone

C. The following is a list of the services for full-time jobs shown in Section A above and the recruitment source which provided the hiree for that position:

Job Title Recruitment Source

D. During the previous 12 months there were a total of 0 people interviewed for vacancies for full-time positions. The following is a list of the total number of interviewees referred by each recruitment source shown in Section B above:

Recruitment Source Total Number of Interviewees

E. During the last 12 months, the station engaged in the following initiatives (provide full details, including an explanation if no initiatives were conducted during the period involved):

Name of Respondent: Cook County Community Radio

Signed: _________________________________

Typed Name: Deb Benedict

Title: Station Manager

Date: November 17, 2008

Telephone Number: 218/387-1070

Cc: Public File

WTIP Tower and Engineering

WTIP broadcasts at:

25,000 watts at 90.7
140 watts at 91.7 translator on the Gunflint Trail

Coverage Area

Coverage Map

WTIP Studios are located in Grand Marais, Minnesota. Although Cook County is our home-base, geographically WTIP serves Lake Superior’s north shore from Two Harbors, MN to the Thunder Bay area. With the addition of our translator, located above the Gunflint Lake, we also reach listeners along the entire length of the Gunflint Trail. And because Lake Superior poses no obstruction to our radio signal, communities along the south shore of Lake Superior in northern Wisconsin and Michigan’s Upper Peninsula receive our signal, too. Welcome Yoopers!

Member-supported, independent community radio.