About Rogers TV Woodstock

Rogers TV Woodstock

Overview

Rogers TV Woodstock is the community cable television channel serving Woodstock, Ontario, the seat of Oxford County in the province's southwest. It is carried on cable channel 13 on the Rogers cable system and belongs to Rogers TV, the network of English-language community channels operated by Rogers Communications. The station has its own channel position, its own section of the Rogers TV website at rogerstv.com/woodstock, its own locally made programming and its own documented place in the city's civic life: the City of Woodstock's official Remembrance Day page states that Rogers TV Woodstock broadcasts the city's cenotaph ceremony live each 11 November, with same-day re-broadcasts — an arrangement in place for the November 2026 ceremony as it was for 2025. Directory listings place the station at 21 Ridgeway Circle in Woodstock. Like every Rogers TV channel, it is available only to Rogers cable subscribers as part of the basic service, is not carried by competing providers and has no over-the-air signal.

History

The Woodstock channel's history runs through the standard arc of Canadian community television: a local channel attached to the town's cable system, operated under the Rogers Television name for most of its life, renamed with the rest of the network when Rogers Television became Rogers TV in April 2008, and relaunched with the network's new identity on 1 September 2016. The modern network itself dates from 2000, when Rogers and Shaw Communications swapped cable systems to consolidate their footprints and Rogers' community channels came under a single national structure.

The defining test for stations of Woodstock's size came in 2017, when Rogers restructured its Ontario community channels after the CRTC gave metropolitan cable operators new spending flexibility: production stations in Toronto, Brampton, Mississauga and Richmond Hill closed, and smaller stations across the province lost positions. The record for Woodstock is specific — the network's station history records that one employee was laid off in Woodstock in 2017 — but the station itself was not closed, and it has remained in Rogers TV's Ontario station list at channel 13 ever since. That continuity is independently visible in the years since: a locally hosted county magazine show, community access podcasts carried on the channel in 2025, and the City of Woodstock's published reliance on the station for the live television coverage of its Remembrance Day ceremony in both 2025 and 2026.

Programming and Content

The station's best-documented local production is What's Up Oxford, a community magazine program covering Woodstock and Oxford County, hosted by Shannon Woolley and identified by Oxford County itself as a Rogers TV Woodstock production. It is the classic community-channel format: interviews and segments about county people, events, organisations and services, made for the audience that lives there. Alongside staff-produced programming, the channel carries access productions from community creators — among them the podcast-format program "your gen z co-worker", whose 2025 episodes, recorded in Woodstock, were carried on Rogers TV Woodstock channel 13 — and the network's shared Southwestern Ontario programming.

The second pillar is live civic coverage. The City of Woodstock's published ceremony schedule has Rogers TV Woodstock going live from Victoria Park at 10:45 a.m. on Remembrance Day, carrying the full service at the cenotaph — the march on of the sentries, the Last Post, the two minutes of silence at 11 a.m., the Act of Remembrance and the placing of wreaths — and repeating the broadcast at 2 p.m. and 6 p.m. the same day. The ceremony itself is organised by the city with the Royal Canadian Legion's Branch 55 and the Oxford County Naval Veterans Association, and includes a fly-over by Canadian Harvard aircraft sponsored by the Miller family; it is the largest set-piece civic event in the city's year, and the station's live window into it is written into the official program rather than left to chance. A municipal government does not write a television station into its official ceremony program year after year unless the station reliably shows up; those listings, renewed for the November 2026 ceremony, are the practical proof of what this channel does. As at other Rogers TV stations, residents can also propose programs of their own, with station staff assessing each proposal for production capability, community involvement and distinctiveness.

Audience and Reach

The channel is available to Rogers cable subscribers in Woodstock on channel 13 as part of the basic service, and its magazine programming addresses the wider Oxford County audience of surrounding communities such as Ingersoll, Tillsonburg and the county's townships. It is not carried by other television providers, and Rogers publishes no ratings or audience figures for individual community channels, so no Woodstock viewing numbers exist in the public record — any source offering precise audience statistics for this station should be treated with suspicion. Its reach is more usefully described in civic terms: in a county whose daily newspaper and radio are locally rooted but whose nearest television stations are based in London and Kitchener, Rogers TV Woodstock is the only television outlet producing programs in and about Woodstock and Oxford County themselves.

Digital Presence

Listings and show pages for the station appear in the Woodstock section of the Rogers TV website at rogerstv.com/woodstock, and some network programming is available through Rogers On Demand. The division of labour with the city's own media is worth noting: Woodstock's council meetings are streamed by the city itself on its YouTube channel, a common modern arrangement, while the television coverage of the Remembrance Day ceremony remains the station's — an illustration of how a small community channel now fits alongside, rather than instead of, municipal self-publishing. Community productions made for the channel also live second lives online: the Woodstock access podcast carried on channel 13 in 2025 distributes its episodes through the usual podcast platforms under its own name, with the Rogers TV carriage credited in its episode descriptions. One caveat belongs in an honest account: rogerstv.com blocks automated research tools, so the present state of the Woodstock show pages, streamed extras and any station social accounts should be confirmed against the live site at publish time. What does not depend on the website is the station's documented footprint in third-party records — the City of Woodstock's ceremony pages, Oxford County's references to its programming, and the network's own station directory — which together establish a channel that is listed, staffed and broadcasting.

Ownership and Organisation

Rogers TV Woodstock is owned and operated by Rogers Communications through its cable division, as part of the Rogers TV network of community channels; the network's French-language counterpart is TV Rogers. The station operates within the CRTC's community programming framework, under which cable licensees devote a portion of subscription revenue to community channels that are expected to reflect the local community and to open their facilities to community producers. In practice the Woodstock operation is small — the 2017 restructuring left a single position cut on the record and a lean local presence since — combining Rogers production staff with the volunteers, partner organisations and community creators who make its access programming. The City of Woodstock and Oxford County both treat the station as the county's community television service in their own publications.

Contact and Availability

Rogers TV Woodstock is found on Rogers cable channel 13 in Woodstock, as part of the basic cable service, and is not available from other providers. Program listings, show information and details on volunteering or proposing a program are published in the Woodstock section of the Rogers TV website, rogerstv.com/woodstock; community show applications are reviewed by Rogers TV at the individual station level. Business listings place the station at 21 Ridgeway Circle in Woodstock, with the telephone number 519-539-8103. Broadcast details for the Remembrance Day ceremony are published each year on the City of Woodstock's website.