2020 in Philippine television

• January 1 – The Philippine feeds of Fox, Fox Life, Fox Movies and National Geographic (SD) were reverted back to the main Southeast Asian feed.
• January 4 – Jayson Nicolas, former overseas worker in East Asia, emerged as the first BiyaHERO Grand Winner.
• January 10–12 – Philippines hosted the 24th Asian Television Awards.[1][2]

• February 2 – Juan Gapang of Bacolod City (Singing) and Kenyo Street Fam of Bulacan (Dancing) hailed as Your Moment Grand Champions.
• February 4 – Jane Basas replaced by Robert P. Galang as the new president and CEO of TV5 Network and Cignal TV.
• February 5 – ASAP celebrated its 25th year in Philippine television.
• February 6 – ABS-CBN Films launched a new talent management arm, "Rise Artists Studio".[3]
• February 14 – Ryan Sy won ₱1.1 million on It's Showtime's Piling Lucky.
• February 25 – The Radio Philippines Network celebrated its 60th anniversary of broadcasting via CNN Philippines.[4]
• February 29 - After almost 3 years of broadcasting, Zee Sine has ceased its broadcast on pay TV by Essel Group due to programming redundancies, lack of advertising support and cost-cutting measures as well as change in business direction.[5]

• March 1
  • GMA Network celebrates its 70th anniversary of broadcasting, tracing its origins from the 1950 opening of its radio station, DZBB.
  • Intercontinental Broadcasting Corporation or IBC celebrates its 60th anniversary of its broadcasts.
• March 8 – After one year of broadcasts, 5 Plus rebrands as One Sports, coinciding with the start of the 2020 PBA season. It will be the first MediaQuest Holdings free-to-air broadcast network and the first outside of cable and satellite to use the "One" branding. In addition to transferring the name from cable to free-to-air, its cable and satellite counterpart has been also rebranded to One Sports+. Along with their network, One News and One PH has a new updated logo, and 5 meanwhile will remove all ESPN related references in the network's own sport division due to the rebranding of One Sports, with the website will continued to run under the ESPN branding in partnership with The Walt Disney Company's GO Network.
• March 10–11 – During the COVID-19 pandemic that had recently spread across the country, President Rodrigo Duterte's declaration of state of public health emergency and the World Health Organization's declaration as a pandemic, as well as local transmission of the coronavirus being present in the country, ABS-CBN and GMA Network announced that will temporary suspending their studio audience tapings for all of its shows, including the former's Magandang Buhay, It's Showtime, ASAP Natin 'To, Banana Sundae and the second season of I Can See Your Voice and the latter's Mars Pa More, Eat Bulaga! (the first show suspending their live studio audience tapings on March 9), Wowowin (including its Saturday night primetime spin-off), Centerstage, Sarap, 'Di Ba?, The Boobay and Tekla Show, and All-Out Sundays, as well as GMA News TV's Idol sa Kusina and Tonight with Arnold Clavio, which is also been affected by the audience taping suspensions. The suspensions are for the safety and well-being of the artists, crew, and production teams. The aforementioned shows will continue to air in production without a studio audience as a precautionary measure.[6]
• March 12 – The major sports leagues across the country announce a temporary suspension of play in an attempt to slow the spread of the coronavirus. the Philippine Basketball Association, the PBA Developmental League, and the Philippine Super Liga announces an indefinite suspension of league activity, while the Maharlika Pilipinas Basketball League and the National Basketball League announced that will suspend the remainder of the playoffs. In addition, the National Collegiate Athletic Association and the University Athletic Association of the Philippines games are canceled. The suspension of the five leagues affecting schedules for 5, One Sports, One Sports+, PBA Rush, S+A, Liga and Solar Sports.
• March 13 – The religious community had canceled the majority of Catholic masses and Christian worship services also due to the pandemic. Religious programs were affected by the pandemic including ABS-CBN's The Healing Eucharist, PTV's Oras Ng Himala, Soldiers of Christ Healing on the Air and Jesus Miracle Crusade, 5's Misa Nazareno, Sambuhay TV Mass and The Word of God Network, CNN Philippines' TV Healing Mass for the Homebound, IBC's Family Appointment with El Shaddai and Feast TV, One Sports' Family TV Mass, S+A's Friends Again, Light TV's Jesus the Healer, SMNI's Sounds of Worship, and Life TV's Oras ng Katotohanan and The Lord's Day. The TV mass shows will continue to air without the churchgoers as a part of a precautionary measure.
• March 14 – ABS-CBN temporary suspend production on teleseryes and live entertainment shows effective March 15 as the COVID-19 pandemic continues to become a serious issue, with their episodes that were scheduled to be completed. Among of the primetime shows were affected including Pamilya Ko, FPJ's Ang Probinsyano, Make It with You and A Soldier's Heart, which will be on hold from the schedule beginning March 16. Meanwhile, GMA Network also announced that will suspend production on the network produced teleseryes and live entertainment shows as well as live entertainment shows co-produced by outside producers and blocktimers beginning March 15.[7][8][9]
• March 16 – The Presidential Communications Operations Office begins airing Public Briefing: #LagingHandaPH on PTV and it also simulcast with other media outlets through KBP-affiliated stations. The daily program provides official updates on the COVID-19 pandemic.[10]
• March 18
  • To replace the broadcasts of Umagang Kay Ganda and all ABS-CBN Regional morning programming, which were ordered to halt in order to support government efforts to fight COVID-19, ABS-CBN revives its weekday morning linkup with DZMM TeleRadyo for the first time in years as provisional programming, leading to the television simulcasts, nationwide, of Garantisadong Balita, Kabayan and Radyo Patrol Balita Alas Siyete, all DZMM-AM programs.
  • The infomercial industry has been affecting their shipping and deliveries, as well as ordering delays due to the enhanced community quarantine brought by the COVID-19 pandemic. As an emergency measure, two companies announced their temporary suspension of telecasts, TV Shop Philippines announced that will suspend their informercials on Intercontinental Broadcasting Corporation and RJDigiTV beginning March 19, as well as temporary shut down of its stand-alone channel on BEAM TV starting March 30; Meanwhile, EZ Shop announced that they will suspend their informercials on Intercontinental Broadcasting Corporation, BEAM TV, 5, One Sports and GMA News TV beginning March 19, but however, their stand-alone channel exclusively on Cignal will continued to broadcast. The other companies will continue to air infomercials including O Shopping on ABS-CBN, S+A, Jeepney TV, and its own stand-alone network on Sky Cable, Sky Direct and ABS-CBN TVPlus (including its TVPlus Go OTG device), and Shop TV on ETC and also on its stand-alone channel on their Cable and Satellite providers.
  • GMA News TV temporary shuts down operations in support of the enhanced community quarantine, with all its staff moving to mother station GMA and the move of Dobol B sa News TV to the mother station, becoming Dobol B sa GMA effective March 19, with the simulcast of Melo del Prado sa Super Radyo DZBB, the first ever radio-television simulcast since the 1990s radio-TV program Kape at Balita. The Melo del Prado sa Super Radyo DZBB portion, which serves as a lead-in to Unang Hirit, aired on both March 19 and 20. On the 20th, the mother network announced the decision to reverse the suspension of the remainder of the weekday morning line-up and the entire weekend morning line-up (with the exception of Yo-kai Watch, which be temporary replaced with Sambuhay TV Mass beginning March 22, and Agripreneur, Kapwa Ko Mahal Ko, and In Touch with Dr. Charles Stanley, all of which will suspended from airing beginning March 21) due to the sister channel's resumption on March 21. Then on March 21, the English language newscast GMA Regional TV Weekend News was also moved to the mother network. Later on March 23, the two networks began simulcasting Super Balita sa Umaga Nationwide and Saksi sa Dobol B while Unang Hirit is on hiatus. The temporary, weekday-only joint network simulcast of Dobol B sa GMA/News TV was ended on April 8, when Unang Hirit resumes on April 13, following the Holy Week break, while the temporary, mother network only broadcasts of GMA Regional TV Weekend News was ended on April 25, a week before its return to the sister network on May 2.
  • In an unprecedented move following the news that an employee from a company working in the Corporate World Center in Mandaluyong, CNN Philippines' headquarters, is diagnosed with the virus, the channel shuts down temporarily for days to allow for disinfection works in its studios and control rooms. To compensate, selected programming is broadcast nationally through the channel's social media pages.
  • The ABS-CBN News Channel, as an emergency measure, temporary simulcasts DZMM TeleRadyo programming to local and international viewers but with own commercials, cutting its feed for the flagship Top Story.
• March 19
  • DZMM TeleRadyo formally stops temporary the replay broadcasts of ABS-CBN News and Current Affairs programming at 1 pm Mondays to Fridays (which began Monday as a result of the decision for the temporary halt of broadcasts of Good Vibes) and replaces them with a news simulcast from the ABS-CBN News Channel, another unprecedented decision, thus DZMM becomes the first radio station in many years, since the end of English broadcasts on DZRJ-AM in the 2010s, to air English-language news programming on the AM brand and by extension DZMM Teleradyo becomes a pioneer in airing bilingual (Filipino and English) news programming in both cable and digital free-to-air television. The English broadcasts air from 1 p.m. (after Headline Pilipinas) to 5 a.m., Tuesdays, Thursdays and Sundays, with ANC's relay of DZMM TeleRadyo programming on Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays and Saturdays (Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays starting at 6 a.m. following Early Edition), with a break at 9 a.m. for Market Edge during trading days in the Philippine Stock Exchange and 5 p.m. for Top Story. With this decision, DZMM TeleRadyo airs The World Tonight for the first time on free-to-air digital television on Tuesday, Thursday and Sunday nights for the first time since 1999, while both are already taking a 6:30 p.m. break for the live simulcast of TV Patrol (weekdays only).
  • CNN Philippines adopts the video technology services of TVU Networks for local broadcasts.
• March 20
  • One News Now, which on this day makes its first ever broadcast on 5, becomes the first ever English-language news broadcast aired in the channel since the end of delayed broadcasts for The Big Story months before. Also, it is the first primetime English-language newscast since 2007-08's Sentro to be broadcast. Meanwhile, the network's flagship newscast Aksyon (in its lunchtime and early evening editions) had officially retired after almost a decade, and the network's simulcasts of One Balita (from One PH) and Morning Calls (from Radyo 5 92.3 News FM and One PH) were put on hold in support of the government efforts to fight COVID-19. The evening portion was ended on May 6, when the network temporary revives the One PH program One Balita Pilipinas on May 7, while the lunchtime portion ended on May 29, when One Balita resumes airing on June 1.
  • DZMM TeleRadyo makes history with the use of video technology from Zoom Video Communications for the Friday night broadcasts of Labor of Love, Saturday morning and afternoon broadcasts of Tandem: Lima at Logan, Magpayo Nga Kayo, Konsyumer ATBP., Usapang Kalye, Good Job, and Omaga-Diaz Report simulcast on ANC, making it a pioneer (and third overall) among the country's news channels.
  • BEAM TV Analog UHF Channel 31 will temporary off the air due to the enhanced community quarantine amid of COVID-19 pandemic.
• March 21
  • GMA News TV returns to broadcasts with an expanded Dobol B sa News TV broadcast as provisional programming.
  • Pop Life TV will temporary off the air due to the enhanced community quarantine amid of COVID-19 pandemic.
• March 22
  • ABS-CBN and its sister channels on FTA and cable, along with radio stations Monster Radio RX 93.1, DZRH and ABS-CBN's very own MOR 101.9 For Life! broadcasts the Pantawid ng Pag-ibig: At Home Together Concert featuring a number of network talents in music, film and television, with TV Patrol Weekend's Alvin Elchico and Zen Hernandez as presenters.
  • As part of the network's 70th anniversary, GMA launches the online-only Buong Puso Para sa Pilipino No-Contract Show, a weekly virtual entertainment-show-cum-fan-meet-up with network talents, not just to raise funds for relief efforts for people affected by the enhanced community quarantine in Luzon and all the medical workers, but also to give back to its loyal viewers and listeners in radio and television for over 7 decades.
  • DZMM TeleRadyo moves to full 24/7 broadcasts provisionally on digital free-to-air and cable, with ANC programming being aired on Sunday late nights till 4:30 a.m. Mondays.
  • Sambuhay TV Mass moves provisionally to GMA from 5 with a 6:00 a.m. broadcast slot on Sundays, becoming the channel's first Catholic TV Mass broadcast since the Family TV Mass in 2014–15. To replace it, 5 debuts the television delayed broadcasts of Misa sa Veritas (via Radio Veritas) on Sunday late afternoons.
• March 23
  • CNN Philippines resumes operations with the special coverage of the special session of both chambers of Congress as the highlight.
  • Net 25, as an emergency measure, extends, at the cost of certain programs, the airing times of Agila Balita, Agila Probinsya, the midday Agila Pilipinas and the primetime Mata ng Agila as well as the Filipino and English-language editions of Eagle News International.
  • Eat Bulaga! begins including footage from the program's first 40 years in television (including the past 24 seasons on GMA) in its provisional rerun episodes. The rerun episodes ended on June 6, when the show plans to resume the audience-free live episodes on June 8.
  • GMA premieres a daily late afternoon online program, Tutok to Win Live, hosted by Wowowin's Willie Revillame, streamed live on Facebook Mondays-Saturdays.
• March 25
  • ABS-CBN Channel 2 programming, due to the decision to temporary stop select TV Patrol regional broadcasts as a result of government efforts to fight COVID-19 countrywide, begins airing in full via satellite in select television stations of the Regional Network Group (Channel 46 Pampanga, Channel 7 Palawan and Channel 4 Davao) as a provisional measure, with their regional reporters now temporarily responsible to the national headquarters in Quezon City through local news bureau chiefs, while all local advertising will remain. This includes both Magandang Buhay and It's Showtime which resumes broadcasts, this time, live nationwide from the homes of the presenters through the Zoom platform, a first in Philippine television history. Both status of the Palawan and Davao stations ends on April 20, when said broadcasts in these markets resumed on the said date.
  • While ABS-CBN Channel 7 Palawan local programming takes a pause, TV Patrol Palawan becomes the first regional TV Patrol broadcast to be aired live via the channel's social media sites Mondays to Fridays, another historical first.
• March 26 – ABS-CBN Channel 11 Naga provisionally becomes a semi-satellite of Channel 2 Metro Manila as TV Patrol Bicol temporary stops broadcasts while retaining local advertisement slots not just for it but for its relay stations all over the Bicol Region and Masbate. This status ends on March 30, when said broadcasts returns airing.
• March 27 – Public demand on social media forces ABS-CBN to provisionally reduce the Saturday KB Family Weekend block to just one movie instead of the usual two as it dedicates the first slot (8:30 a.m. to 10 a.m., following Dok Ricky, Pedia) for its award-winning Educational Television programming (Sine'skwela, Bayani and Hiraya Manawari) courtesy of the cable and digital free-to-air channel Knowledge Channel, to serve the millions of pre-school and elementary students whose studies, as a result of the pandemic and the quarantines imposed by many local governments (as well as the Luzon-wide enhanced community quarantine) have been interrupted, while also aiming to introduce the channel and its valuable work to millions of viewers nationwide. The provisional educational programming began on Saturday, March 28. (Later on, Bayani and Hiraya Manawari would both air on Sundays as well as lead-in to MathDali at 9:15 a.m. beginning April 12.)
• March 30
  • One Sports temporary suspends broadcast due to limitations brought about by the Enhanced Community Quarantine in Luzon, with 5, One Sports+ and PBA Rush taking over some of its archived programming, except for other programs such as Talking Heads which will move to BEAM TV beginning May 16.
  • Rico Hizon makes his return to the Philippines as he makes his debut as part of the CNN Philippines news team, with a 9 p.m. weekday slot that would later become The Final Word (beginning April 20).

• April 1
  • ABS-CBN's TV Patrol becomes the fourth national newscast to incorporate simultaneous sign language interpretation for the deaf and hard of hearing in its broadcasts, in addition to closed captioning, following TV5's lead years before with its News5 newscasts. Previously, sign language interpretation had been available in the regional TV Patrol editions in Palawan and Cebu.
  • After almost 15 years of broadcasting, Jack TV has ceased its commercial broadcast on pay TV by Solar Entertainment Corporation due to programming redundancies, lack of advertising support and cross-cutting measures as well as change in business direction during the COVID-19 pandemic in the Philippines. However, it continued as a digital web portal on their official online media platforms. Meanwhile, most of the programming will plan to be migrated to ETC or Solar Sports.
  • Front Row Channel (which is the Philippine version of a global TV network of the same name) was officially launched by the joint venture between Solar Entertainment Corporation and Jungo TV, which is distributed by GMA Network, as the 24-hour music channel that specializes in broadcasts of live concerts with featured performances from the world's top musical acts. While it has been initially launched in other cable providers, the channel has not been placed in the lineups of the major cable systems yet.
  • Kuwentuhang Lokal and Pasada 630 both become the first-ever DZMM TeleRadyo programs to be aired fully with production using the Zoom platform.
  • DZMM Radyo Patrol 630 and DZMM TeleRadyo switched to simultaneous telecast with the English-language ABS-CBN News Channel starting at 10:00 p.m. DZMM temporarily suspended its regular programming after asking all concerned on-duty personnel to go on self-quarantine for 14 days following their exposure to two Persons Under Investigation. The studio and facilities of DZMM have been vacated and will be immediately disinfected. Those who have not been exposed shall work from home. With this move, DZMM and DZMM TeleRadyo, as well as the regional AM radio stations DYAP and DXAB, become English-only (for the first time in history after many years) as a provisional measure. From 5:30 p.m. to 10 p.m., the channel aired the best of ABS-CBN News and Current Affairs programming in their place with a 6:30 p.m. break for TV Patrol.[11]
  • After past three years, Fox+ ceased its operations by Fox Networks Group in the Philippines due to cross-cutting measures as well as change in business direction. The ad-free subscription service was originally launched locally in 2017 as a merger of the company's three streaming services: "Fox Play", "Fox Movies Play" and "Fox Sports Play" for the Philippines, with PLDT, Inc. and sister companies Smart Communications and Cignal TV as a founding provider partner and later with Globe Telecom as an additional provider partner in 2018; the service was eventually acquired by The Walt Disney Company as a sister streamer to DisneyLife in 2019, the PLDT Group announced will back out as a provider partner in August in the same year, leaving Globe as the only provider partner for the Philippines until its closure. Following the closure, subscribers meanwhile have encourage to continue watching these shows, movies, documentaries and live sporting events on the company's linear TV networks after on that date.[12]
  • After almost two years, DisneyLife ceased its operations by The Walt Disney Company in the Philippines, as its own streaming service, Disney+ might be available in the country soon. The service was originally launched as a all-in-one streaming service in 2018 with Globe Telecom as a partner provider, replacing the TV streaming apps: "Watch Disney Channel", "Watch Disney Junior" and "Watch Disney XD" for the Philippines.[13]
• April 2
  • With the switch to the English broadcasts on ANC as a result of the decision to suspend DZMM's programs, DYAB TeleRadyo provisionally introduces English-language broadcasts via ANC in select hours, in combination with TV Patrol and the Cebuano-language programming aired on the channel. Also, the ANC simulcast provisionally begins airing on both ABS-CBN (from 5 a.m. to 8 a.m.) and S+A (8 a.m. to 10 a.m.), bringing thus the special editions of Early Edition and Headstart as well as Market Edge (the two programs are only aired on S+A via simulcast). The broadcasts are the first English news broadcasts on both channels after many years.
  • ANC's Dateline Philippines, following TV Patrol's lead the previous night, now adds simultaneous sign language interpretation for the deaf and hard of hearing viewers who watch the channel. It is the first ANC telecast to utilize it.
• April 3 – DZMM TeleRadyo resumes transmissions, with almost all programming, as well as field reports, now aired via the Zoom platform, but with ANC commercials instead of channel commercials. ANC graphics for news stories, as well as for reporter and presenter introductions, would debut beginning with the Headline Pilipinas broadcasts, beginning with the Saturday edition on April 4.
• April 5–8 – In the wake of the cancellation of this year's APT Entertainment Holy Week Drama Special which to be aired by GMA on April 11 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, 5 re-airs the previous Lenten Drama Specials produced by APT, including Milagroso from 2006 and May Milagroso Pa Nga Ba? from 2002 (retitled May Milagroso Pa Nga Ba? (Part 1)-Ang Hiling, May Milagroso Pa Nga Ba? (Part 2)-Sister Choleng and May Milagroso Pa Nga Ba? (Part 3)-Awit ni Miling for its re-airing).
• April 6
  • TV Patrol officially makes history with the first ever news reports aired using the Zoom platform.
  • ABS-CBN and Star Cinema (through Star Creatives) both launch yet another online entertainment program, Rise and Shine, aired on Facebook midday on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays (with a same day encore on YouTube) with DJ Jai Ho, the presenter of the Sunday Showbiz Pa More! on Jeepney TV, hosting.
  • Inquirer 990 Television resumes broadcasts after a three-week break.
• April 9–11 – By virtue of a partnership between The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in the Philippines, GMA Network and ABS-CBN, given the effects of the enhanced community quarantine in Luzon and many other provinces, for the first time ever, the 190th General Conference of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, aired from the Conference Center in Temple Square, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA was officially broadcast countrywide on both free-to-air and cable, not just to members of the Church, but also to non-members, on both GMA and DZMM TeleRadyo during the Easter Triduum period, making it the first time it had been ever done via satellite delay (the Music and the Spoken Word conference edition was aired on GMA on April 11). All the broadcasts on DZMM TeleRadyo on April 9 and 11 were also simulcast as well on the ABS-CBN News Channel. This event was the very first time it had aired on Philippine television.
• April 10
  • The 2020 edition of SVD-Mission Communications Foundation's Seven Last Words from the Diocesan Shrine and Parish of Jesus, the Divine Word at Christ the King Mission Seminary in Quezon City was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic, and it was originally to be televised live on both ABS-CBN and DZMM TeleRadyo with a delay on Jeepney TV. In lieu of the special, ABS-CBN airs the movie The Young Messiah and the network produced special Ang Pitong Huling Salita in its place.
  • For the first time in its 27-year history on television, The Dominican Fathers of the Philippines' Siete Palabras has switch to the pre-recorded format this year, the event was originally to be aired live from the Sto. Domingo Church in Quezon City, but, however, it was scrapped due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The special is televised for the 12th year by GMA Network (with selected GMA Regional TV stations in Visayas and Mindanao pre-empting the national special with the local versions of the said special), and simulcast on Radyo Veritas in Manila, and other Catholic Media Network radio stations nationwide.
• April 12 - ABS-CBN announced they moved the Nickelodeon programs SpongeBob SquarePants and The Loud House provisionally to 7:30 a.m. and 7:50 a.m. Sundays (following Swak na Swak) as a result of an expansion to the network's educational television programming supplied by the cable and digital free-to-air channel Knowledge Channel beginning at 8:15 a.m.
• April 13
  • Commercial feeds for both ANC and DZMM TeleRadyo for Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays and Saturdays are now separated after days of using a singular commercial feed. In addition, DZMM (and DZMM TeleRadyo) now resume use of the radio studios following disinfection measures, with SRO: Suhestyon, Reaksyon at Opinion as the first broadcasts to be aired from there.
  • GMA News TV resumes evening broadcasts of its own public affairs and documentary programming and the BBC Natural History Unit's Planet Earth II, while retaining the provisional Dobol B sa News TV afternoon broadcasts, and 24 Oras simulcasts. Later, on April 18, five lifestyle programs were also resumed.
• April 20
  • After 4 weeks, the timesharing of programming between both DZMM TeleRadyo and ANC ends, with ANC now resuming separate programming on Mondays and DZMM slowly resuming broadcasts from the radio studios.
  • GMA Network's 24 Oras becomes the fifth national newscast to incorporate simultaneous sign language interpretation for the deaf and hard of hearing in its broadcasts, in addition, its online livestream on YouTube converts to airing in full high definition, making it the third in the country.
• April 21 – Infomerical company O Shopping temporarily suspends its broadcast on ABS-CBN due to the enhanced community quarantine during the COVID-19 pandemic in the Philippines, becomes the third infomercial company to suspend their broadcasts, following TV Shop Philippines and EZ Shop which is announcing their broadcast suspensions in the previous month. However, the broadcasts will continue to air on S+A, Jeepney TV, and its own stand-alone network on Sky Cable, Sky Direct and ABS-CBN TVPlus (including its TVPlus Go OTG device) as a result. With that, ABS-CBN reverts to signing off at midnight, signing-on before the broadcasts of the Kapamilya Daily Mass (and effective from May 4, the replay broadcasts of ABS-CBN News and Current Affairs programming) on Mondays to Fridays at 4:20 am (with Jesuit Communications Foundation produced show Kape't Pandesal preceding it), Saturdays at 5:25 am and before The Healing Eucharist on Sundays at 5:55 am.
• April 23 – Net 25, The television network of Iglesia ni Cristo-affiliated company Eagle Broadcasting Corporation celebrates its 20th anniversary.
• April 25–26 – With the termination of the timesharing policies of both DZMM TeleRadyo and ANC, both stations resume separate weekend programming schedules. Meanwhile, on DZMM TeleRadyo, music-related programs Yesterday and Remember When, as well as news-related shows Sagot Ko 'Yan! and Red Alert and the public affairs program Tulong Ko, Pasa Mo resumes broadcasts on April 26 after a month long hiatus.
• April 29 – ABS-CBN, for the first time in weeks, readjusts mid-morning and midday programming with a new provisional expansion of Kapamilya Blockbusters with two movies starting at 10 a.m. and 11:50 a.m., respectively, resulting in It's Showtime now being pushed back to 1:30 p.m. in the afternoon, but with a reduced one-hour run for the first time in its 11-year run of the show, and Love in Sadness now moved following Magandang Buhay at 9:30 a.m. as lead-in to the expanded block. This expansion follows the success of the expanded Sunday edition of KB Family Weekend.
• April 30 – After past five years, HOOQ ceased its operations by Singtel across all countries, including the Philippines, after the provider filed for liquidation on March 27. Meanwhile, Korean-based company Coupang announced the purchase of HOOQ's assets on July 10.[14][15]

• May 1 – Through a Facebook video, ABS-CBN announces that the day's simulcasts of Kabayan and Radyo Patrol Balita Alas Siyete via DZMM TeleRadyo are the very last to be aired nationwide, giving way to the return to broadcasts of Umagang Kay Ganda and all the ABS-CBN Regional Network Group morning programs in regional areas for two days (except for Palawan and Southern Tagalog) beginning Monday, May 4. In addition to the resumption of UKG and the RNG morning programs, the brand new morning program Maupay na Aga Kapamilya, which will be aired on ABS-CBN Channel 2 Tacloban will officially make its premiere telecast on the same date.
• May 2 - Infomercial company EZ Shop resumes broadcasts this time on Intercontinental Broadcasting Corporation after two months of suspending it from airing, due to the enhanced community quarantine during the COVID-19 pandemic in the Philippines, becomes the first company to partly resume broadcasts. Meanwhile, the company will continue to suspend broadcasting on BEAM TV, 5, One Sports and GMA News TV.
• May 5 - Most of ABS-CBN's free TV and radio broadcasting operations including ABS-CBN, MOR 101.9, DZMM and its television counterpart (temporarily renamed TeleRadyo due to DZMM's sign off and would return on May 8 only in digital free-to-air and cable, as well as in online platforms), S+A, the free-to-air operations of Jeepney TV, Knowledge Channel and Myx, Asianovela Channel and Movie Central (except for Cine Mo!, Yey!, Kapamilya Box Office, O Shopping and the ABS-CBN News Channel) signed off the air at 7:52 pm due to the cease-and-desist order of the National Telecommunications Commission to temporary stop broadcast operations of ABS-CBN because of the expiration of its franchise granted on March 30, 1995.[16] Meanwhile, the live channel streaming broadcast on ABS-CBN and DZMM TeleRadyo were unavailable via iWant on the same day that O Shopping and ABS-CBN News Channel took over as temporary replacements of the streaming channels. And finally, Creative Programs owned pay TV channels (Cinema One, Liga, Metro Channel, Myx and Jeepney TV) and Knowledge Channel remain unaffected in some DTH providers including their stand-alone pay-per-view channel Kapamilya Box Office will be available only on Sky Cable and Sky Direct subscribers.
• May 6 - One day after the final broadcasts on FTA, ABS-CBN, in a Facebook post, formally announces that due to demand from the overseas audiences on The Filipino Channel, TV Patrol will resume broadcast on that channel on May 7 after a two-day break live on all TFC platforms (including online, cable and satellite feeds), continuing a tradition of broadcasting to Filipinos abroad since 1989. In addition, live broadcasts of the newscast on online platforms and the ABS-CBN News Channel continued as well beginning on the said date, with the channel provisionally shouldering the program's airing and production.
• May 7 - ABS-CBN, aside from the announcement of the return of TeleRadyo, also announces on Facebook that effective Friday, May 8, all the regional TV Patrol editions will resume broadcasts on Facebook Live through their respective FB pages.
• May 8 - Knowledge Channel temporarily shuts down its free-to-air broadcast on ABS-CBN TV Plus due to the cease-and-desist order of the NTC to close down its broadcasting operations of ABS-CBN, the channel continues to broadcast on cable providers.
• May 12 - In yet another ABS-CBN announcement on Facebook, all ABS-CBN Regional Network Group morning programming will resume airing online-only to regional viewers starting 7 am on May 13 through Facebook Live.
• May 14 - ABS-CBN launches a new online service, Online Kapamilya Shows (OKS), the online-only content can be accessed.
• May 16
  • BEAM TV Analog UHF Channel 31 resumes operation of regular programming.
  • Aside from the resumption of broadcasts at BEAM TV Analog UHF Channel 31, Infomercial company EZ Shop announced that they resume broadcasts on that channel starting on this date, a few weeks after the company resume its telecasts on Intercontinental Broadcasting Corporation on May 2. Meanwhile, other networks such as 5, One Sports and GMA News TV will continued to suspend their telecasts of the said company.
  • Another infomercial company is making their resumption of broadcasts after a two-month break due to the enhanced community quarantine during the COVID-19 pandemic in the Philippines, TV Shop Philippines announced that they resume its broadcasts, but only on RJDigiTV. With that, TV Shop Philippines becomes the second company to partly resume airing infomercials.
• May 22 - One PH, a Filipino-language news and talk channel from Cignal started its test broadcast on digital terrestrial television as a subchannel of 5 (via DWET-TV).[17]
• May 26–July 9 - the 18th Congress of the Philippines, particularly on the House of Representatives thru the Joint Committees on Legislative Franchises, Good Government and Public Accountability, tackled the franchise applications of ABS-CBN for the renewal of its existing franchise, which was expired on May 4.

• June 1 - Due to insisted public demand, Jeepney TV and Asianovela Channel restart free-to-air broadcasts on ABS-CBN TV Plus as they are the assigned temporary channel replacements of ABS-CBN and S+A. Both channels are still on free trial until further notice.
• June 4 - Following the announcement by the Inter-Agency Task Force on Emerging Infectious Diseases to allow mass gatherings in churches in the General Community Quarantine and Modified General Community Quarantine areas nationwide as well as the statement of ABS-CBN and The Healing Eucharist official Facebook page to temporarily stop admitting the studio audience to its broadcasts on Sundays (Live and Recorded telecast on TeleRadyo, Jeepney TV, and effective June 14, Kapamilya Channel) due to the COVID-19 outbreak, The Healing Eucharist - Sunday TV Mass production team announces that it temporarily suspends the admission of live audiences within four consecutive Sundays effective June 7 up to 28.
• June 5 - Liza Soberano's manager Ogie Diaz took to social media to address the queries of the fans who wondered why Make It with You was not included in the lineup of the ABS-CBN shows that will be aired on the newly announced Kapamilya Channel. He revealed the sad news about the series being concluded.[18]
• June 7 - Some ABS-CBN programs (mostly from ABS-CBN News and Current Affairs such as Kuha Mo!, Mission Possible, S.O.C.O.: Scene of the Crime Operatives and Umagang Kay Ganda) continue to delivered new and fresh episodes through online.[19]
• June 12
  • In celebration of Independence Day, GMA Network urged their audiences to re-scan their digital TV boxes to receive their new lineup including the brand-new channel, Heart of Asia, which is scheduled to launch on June 29, as part of their festivities on the 70th anniversary of the said network.[20]
  • During the Special Coverage of the 122nd Independence Day celebrations on People's Television Network, The infographic had mistaken regarding the picture of the first president Emilio Aguinaldo and the mention of the Katipunan supreme leader Andres Bonifacio. The network later apologized for the error during the coverage and it was later revised with the correct picture of Andres Bonifacio and the mention of Emilio Aguinaldo on the network's social media pages. The error causing the new management of the said network according to the statement that they need skills development and necessary training to be initiated.
• June 13
  • Following Independence Day celebrations and in celebration of 74 years since its corporate formation in 1946, ABS-CBN begins its phrased return to full broadcasting as the cable and satellite only channel named Kapamilya Channel. The new channel will resume broadcast of entertainment, educational, news and current affairs programming from ABS-CBN which was stopped due to its ongoing shutdown on free-to-air television. This was announced thru TV Patrol on its June 4 broadcast,[21] with its official launch video debuted also on the same program a day later, June 5.
  • As part of the launch a longer morning educational television block, produced by the Knowledge Channel and featuring many of ABS-CBN's legendary award-winning educational programs together with the Knowledge Channel's own productions, officially begins airing on Kapamilya Channel on weekends starting on this day and on Sunday, June 14. Its purpose is to help in the educational needs of millions of Filipino children and youth from both public and private educational institutions in the pre-school and elementary levels during the current COVID-19 pandemic.
  • ABS-CBN's RGE Drama Unit has confirmed the cancellation of Pamilya Ko through its official Instagram account. No reason was given.[22] The announcement came a week after the cancellation of Make It With You due to the health concerns of its lead actress Liza Soberano, as well as the enhanced community quarantine in Luzon and the ABS-CBN franchise renewal controversy.
• June 15
  • Cignal debuts a brand new 24/7 movie and drama channel on satellite television, One Screen, which features films from local features, Tagalized Hollywood films, and European movies (in its original language) supplied by the channel Cinemaworld, as well as dramas from North America and local content from GMA Network and the satellite service's corporate siblings 5 and Cignal Entertainment.
  • One Sports resumes operation of regular programming.
• June 19 – 5 celebrates its 60th anniversary of broadcasting.
• June 22 – After 1 year of being off-air, ZOE Broadcasting Network reactivated its VHF channel 11 while at the same time opened its assigned DTT channel 20. Since then, both are currently under test broadcasts but is still open for blocktime or channel lease offers.
• June 26 - GMA Network formally launched its digital terrestrial television brand, GMA Affordabox.[23][24]
• June 29 - As part of its 70th anniversary festivities, GMA Network formally launches its brand new Asianovela channel on digital terrestrial television, Heart of Asia.[20][25]
• June 30 - Most of ABS-CBN's blocktime agreement using digital broadcasting operations including AMCARA Broadcasting Network and its use of digital frequency on Channel 43 carrying the free-to-air operations of Jeepney TV, Asianovela Channel, Cine Mo!, Yey!, TeleRadyo and KBO airing on ABS-CBN TV Plus in Metro Manila and nearby provinces, alongside Sky Cable's direct to home satellite service, Sky Direct signed off the air at 8:30 pm due to the alias cease-and-desist order of the National Telecommunications Commission to temporary stop broadcast operations of ABS-CBN TV Plus and Sky Direct because of the expiration of its franchise granted on March 30, 1995.[26] Meanwhile, ABS-CBN News Channel, Kapamilya Channel, Cine Mo!, TeleRadyo, O Shopping, Knowledge Channel and Creative Programs owned pay TV channels (Cinema One, Liga, Metro Channel, Myx and Jeepney TV) remain unaffected on Sky Cable and some DTH providers in nearby areas. While in ABS-CBN TV Plus, the digital broadcasts of other networks also remain unaffected and the operations continue outside Metro Manila.

• July 1 - A day after the 2 alias cease-and-desist order of the National Telecommunications Commission to temporary stop broadcast operations of ABS-CBN TV Plus and Sky Direct, ABS-CBN announced that the free-to-air operations of Jeepney TV, Asianovela Channel, Cine Mo!, Yey!, TeleRadyo and KBO airing on ABS-CBN TV Plus outside Metro Manila will temporarily stop its digital broadcasting and signed off the air at 6:00 pm.[27] Meanwhile, Cine Mo!, TeleRadyo and Jeepney TV remain unaffected on Sky Cable and some DTH providers in nearby areas. While in ABS-CBN TV Plus, the digital broadcasts of other networks also remain unaffected and the operations still continue.
• July 7
  • After almost 8 years of broadcasting, Fox Filipino ceased to air by Fox Networks Group due to programming redundancies, lack of advertising support and cross-cutting measures. Meanwhile, GMA Network, the network's content partner since its 2012 launch, said they encourage the viewers of the channel to continue to watch the older shows of the network that is previously aired on Fox Filipino on the network's partner streaming services such as Iflix and Amazon Prime Video under the GMA On Demand banner, the network's new digital network Heart of Asia, and the new cable/satellite network One Screen.
  • CNN Philippines temporary shuts down its broadcast again and limits its broadcast of select programs thru online to allow the disinfection of its studios in Corporate World Center in Mandaluyong, where one of its network staffers test positive with the virus.
• July 10 - After 12 hearings which started on May 26, the House of Representatives, particularly on the Committee on Legislative Franchises, voted 70–11 to deny the franchise application of ABS-CBN. Following that, ABS-CBN Corporation (which is a media conglomerate or mainstream media) instead announced that would focus on businesses that does not require a legislative franchise, including digital channels, cable, international licensing and distribution, and production of content for various streaming services.
• July 13 - ABS-CBN's subsidiary Creative Programs, Inc., launched For Your Entertainment (FYE) Channel, exclusively on a Filipino-made social networking service, Kumu.
• July 18 - People's Television Network announces a one-day halt of broadcasts running 24 hours on Sunday, July 19, for the disinfection of its Visayas Avenue main studios and offices in Quezon City following news that a network employee had been tested positive with the virus.
• July 27 - Cignal TV and its sister company, Smart Communications announced a multi-year deal with the National Basketball Association for the league's official broadcast rights in the Philippines, replacing Solar Entertainment Corporation. The games during the 2019–20 season will be aired live on free-to-air networks 5 and One Sports (replacing CNN Philippines as an exclusive but temporary free-to-air broadcaster, which eventually dropped in March because of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States and Canada, as well as the 4 month suspension of league play). Meanwhile, Cignal's new pay TV channel NBA TV Philippines will be exclusively available on the satellite provider (though Cignal plans to offer the channel for syndication to other cable operators), while Smart postpaid and prepaid subscribers can avail on live streaming platform via NBA TV Philippines. The deal was started on the same day the NBA's restart of the current season begins. This is the first time the NBA broadcasts on 5 since the then-ABC 5 last aired the NBA games (in partnership with Solar) from 2007 until 2008.[28][29]
• July 31
  • After ten months of absence, Cignal debuts a brand new 24/7 basketball channel on satellite television, NBA TV Philippines (which is the Philippine version of an American channel of the same name), replacing NBA Premium TV (which was formerly owned by Solar Entertainment Corporation, the NBA's former Philippine broadcaster). The newly relaunched basketball channel is now owned and operated by the content provider, Cignal TV and was launched on the same day the NBA's restart of the current season (July 30 on Orlando time).
  • After more than 13 years on TeleRadyo, Anthony Taberna and Gerry Baja hosts of late afternoon news and commentary program, Dos Por Dos along with a host of now-defunct morning show on ABS-CBN's Umagang Kay Ganda and his solo morning news radio program Garantisadong Balita officially ended due to terminate of their contract of the network and implement a retrenchment program, following the non-renewal of its congressional franchise on July 10. The duo meanwhile will planned to join the Manila Broadcasting Company-owned station DZRH and its counterpart DZRH News Television beginning at the end of the following month.[30]

• August 1
  • ABS-CBN Corporation launched a livestreaming for new and well-loved shows of ABS-CBN, Kapamilya Online Live, on their digital and online platforms such as Facebook and YouTube.[31][32]
  • People's Television Network announced on social media that its news programming plus hourly updates will remain in light of the network's reduced manpower policies beginning August 3 up to September 6 (formerly on August 10), which affects all programming schedules resulting in a reduction of live programming hours. As a result, PTV News, as well as certain editions of PTV Balita Ngayon, convert to remote production. The planned return of the Philippine Lotto Draw broadcasts starting August 7 (formerly on August 4) will go on as planned but in phrases.
• August 2
  • In response to a live webinar demanding a return to ECQ restrictions by representatives of the country's medical profession the day before, Kapamilya Channel once more reshuffles Sunday programming with the Sunday KB Family Weekend block expanded once more to two movies, pushing ASAP Natin 'To to a new time of 12:30pm.
  • GMA Network, as part of the celebrations of its 70th anniversary, launches a new online service, GMA Entertainment Shows (GETS) Online, in which both the network's archive of past programs and online-only content can be accessed.
  • Imbestigador celebrated its 20th year anniversary on Philippine television.
• August 11
  • The Department of Education launched DepEd TV, an educational programming service block featuring lessons for students on TV and radio as part of their distance learning for S.Y. 2020-2021 as face to face learning is prohibited due to COVID-19 pandemic. It would start its test broadcast run of basic educational programs on TV and radio via IBC-13 and digital-only channel Solar Learning until August 21, except weekends. DepEd also plans to broadcast using three television stations each for elementary, junior high school, and both senior high school and Alternative Learning System. During its first run, DepEd TV was criticized for incorrect grammar in Grade 8 English subject. But on August 14, the agency announced the postponement on the opening of regular classes in public schools to October 5, thus placing its test run ended early on the same day. On September 21–25, DepEd TV conducted a final test broadcast via broadcast networks IBC-13 and Solar Learning, direct-to-home (DTH) satellite providers Cignal and G Sat, and various cable providers (particularly members of the Philippine Cable Television Association).
  • Solar Learning was launched for the all-day free-to-air digital terrestrial channel specialized for the upcoming online social learning and education classes for SY 2020–2021. The channel is owned by Solar Entertainment Corporation in partnership with Department of Education.
• August 12 - Following the successful launch of Kapamilya Online Live, ABS-CBN's Star Music relaunched a digital online channel for children's learning by using music, TuTuBee (formerly called Star Music Kids), exclusively on their digital and online platforms including Facebook, Spotify and YouTube.[33][34]
• August 14
  • ABS-CBN's Knowledge Channel launched "School at Home: Ang Saya Matuto ng Bago" campaign program aligned with the Most Essential Learning Competencies in the DepEd's Basic Education Learning Continuity Plan which targets students to learned at home during the COVID-19 pandemic.[35]
  • Vice Ganda launched its own digital network, Vice Ganda Network. It was originally to be launched on July 24, but due to the technical issues on the said network, it was postponed and moved to its current date.[36]
• August 15 - MediaQuest Holdings, through TV5 Network, Inc. announced The 5 Network or simply 5 would reverted to its former name, TV5, with brand new entertainment programs in collaboration with its sister company, Cignal TV, through blocktime agreements co-produced with other content providers such as Archangel Media, Inc., Brightlight Productions, and Viva Television, among others. Originally, the plan was to rebranding it into One TV on April 13 (first) and July 20 (second) respectively, but because of the ongoing community quarantines in the Philippines amid the COVID-19 pandemic, it was silently decided to not carry on with its promotions through its digital and online platforms have been removed. There's no official word yet from the company if the rebrand will continue or not in the near future and some reports that TV5 had cancelled its plans to rebrand.
• August 16 - Heart Salvador (coached by Bamboo Mañalac), Cydel Gabutero (coached by Lea Salonga), Isang Manlapaz (coached by apl.de.ap) and Kendra Aguirre (coached by Sarah Geronimo), all won the second season of The Voice Teens for the first time in The Voice of the Philippines history.[37]
• August 18 - ABS-CBN's Kapamilya Tickets (KTX.ph) extended its service from the ticketing portal of ABS-CBN live shows to a virtual venue that can host simultaneous events, from concerts and movie premieres to trade shows, promising an exclusive experience for organizers and participants.[38]
• August 19 - Since 2019, Prima Donnas celebrated its first anniversary on television.
• August 25 - Raffy Tulfo announces thru Facebook that all of News5's radio and television programming will convert to remote production as a result of a massive disinfection of the TV5 Media Center following news that a TV5 employee had tested positive with the virus. This follows a prior shutdown of news operations on TV5, One PH and One News from August 21 to 23 which had been announced thru social media pages.[39]
• August 28 - After almost 32 years, ABS-CBN Regional ceased its operations with 12 TV Patrol's regional newscasts and 10 morning shows ended their broadcast following the denial of its legislative franchise on July 10.[40]
• August 31
  • ABS-CBN Corporation announced that it ceased the operations of some of its businesses and implemented a retrenchment program covering the company and its subsidiaries, following the non-renewal of its congressional franchise on July 10.[41]
  • ABS-CBN News announced that multi-awarded broadcast journalist Ted Failon has leaved ABS-CBN after 30 years following the denial of its legislative franchise on July 10.[42]
  • After almost 13 years, ABS-CBN's morning program, Umagang Kay Ganda has ended following the denial of its legislative franchise on July 10.

• September 1
  • ABS-CBN's streaming media services iWant and TFC Online were merged into one over-the-top content platform, iWantTFC, and began its soft launched on the same date exclusively on the web browser and mobile application, as well as be accessible in the Philippines and worldwide.[43] In addition, Sky On Demand was also merged with iWantTFC and The Filipino Channel (TFC) would also available on US-based service, Xfinity in HD.
  • TeleRadyo Cebu (formerly DYAB TeleRadyo) rebrands to Sibya TV, serving as Cebu's dedicated news and information TV channel, thus becoming the fourth Cebuano language news channel and fifth overall to be broadcast in that language.
  • After past five months of absence in the COVID-19 pandemic, the cease-and-desist order of the NTC to close down its broadcasting operations of ABS-CBN and following the denial of its legislative franchise on July 10, On the Spot resumes on TeleRadyo. Previously was the former late afternoon news program and now reformatted into news and commentary program on Weekday morning timeslot replacing Failon Ngayon.
• September 9 - GMA Network implemented a layoff program covering GMA News TV due to COVID-19 pandemic.[44] In addition to this, it was reported that GMA also announced the cancellation of productions on some programs airing on the said news channel with eleven shows were reportedly threatened to disappear off the air.[45]
• September 10 - National Telecommunications Commission issued an order to recall all radio frequencies and channels assigned to ABS-CBN Corporation following the lack of congressional franchise.[46]
• September 11–12[47][48]
  • September 11 - Following the successful launch of Kapamilya Online Live, and the relaunches of TuTuBee and KTX.ph, ABS-CBN Corporation extended its digital and online presence to the virtual world by launched an edutainment interactive portal hub, Just Love Kids, with features some programming contents for kids exclusively on their social networking and website platforms.
  • September 12 - The following day, ABS-CBN also launched a weekend morning block of the same name, featuring the same program contents for children exclusively on their pay television network, Kapamilya Channel.
• September 20 - GMA Network, in partnership with Jungo TV, formally launched its brand new Asian pop culture channel through K-pop, lifestyle and entertainment programming contents on digital terrestrial television, Hallypop (which is the Philippine version of a global TV network of the same name).[49][50]
• September 21 - After 6 months of ceased production due to the COVID-19 pandemic, GMA News TV resumed its newscasts including Balitanghali, News TV QRT, State of the Nation with Jessica Soho and Stand for Truth.
• September 22 - In acting on a 2013 illegal dismissal case, Supreme Court has ordered GMA Network to reinstate 30 cameramen and assistant cameramen and pay their backwages, allowances, and other benefits from illegal dismissal in 2013 up to actual reinstatement.[51]
• September 24 - Eugenio “Gabby” Lopez III tendered his resignation for personal reasons as Chairman Emeritus and Director of ABS-CBN Corporation and other Lopez-owned companies.[52]
• September 28 - Since 2015, FPJ's Ang Probinsyano celebrated its 5th anniversary on television.

• October 2 – Saksi, GMA Network's longest running late night newscast since 2002 and formerly as an early evening newscast during its early years, celebrated its 25th year in Philippine television.
• October 5
  • After many years of being a Sky Cable only channels, three ABS-CBN-owned cable channels: Cine Mo!, Jeepney TV and Metro Channel, are now broadcast on G Sat.[53]
  • DepEd TV, an educational programming service block, expanded into a television network as the service was broadcast on Cignal and SatLite.
• October 6 - ABS-CBN Corporation and ZOE Broadcasting Network entered a blocktime deal to air selected ABS-CBN shows and movies on Channel 11 (ZOE's owned TV frequency) beginning on October 10.[54][55][56][57] The following day on October 7, ABS-CBN also released another statement for airing some programs that would include on Channel 11's line-up, respectively.[58][59]
• October 8 - O Shopping made some changes on channel assignment from Channel 11 to Channel 25 (Metro Manila) and Channel 21 (Provincial) on Sky Cable, as ZOE TV will assigned to Channel 11 beginning on the same day.[60][61]
• October 9-11 - Due to the success of the Easter Triduum broadcasts of the 190th General Conference of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in the Philippines and GMA Network, through GMA News TV, broadcasts the Church's 190th Semiannual General Conference via satellite delay on GMA News TV on both free-to-air (analog and digital) and cable TV, not just to members of the Church, but also to non-members (this includes Music and the Spoken Word, which will air on October 10). These broadcasts, aired remotely from Salt Lake City due to the COVID-19 pandemic that forced the first ever General Conference TV broadcasts in the country earlier that year, mark the very first time the Semiannual General Conference is broadcast on Philippine television.
• October 10 - ZOE TV rebranded to A2Z, which feature some contents of programs from its selected blocktimers (ABS-CBN and Knowledge Channel), licensors and providers (CBN Asia, Trinity Broadcasting Network and others), and ZOE's owned Light TV on the said network, after ABS-CBN and ZOE agreed with the entering of blocktime deal on October 6. This also marks the return of ABS-CBN programmings on free TV after the cease-and-desist order by National Telecommunications Commission due to expired legislative franchise on May 5 and the denial of its renewed legislative franchise on July 10.[54][55][56][57]
• October 20 - Bubble Gang celebrated its 25th anniversary on Philippine television.
• October 23 - MediaQuest Holdings, through Cignal TV and TV5 Network, Inc., and its sister company Smart Communications announced a 5-and-a-half year deal with the University Athletic Association of the Philippines to aired the games beginning with the 83rd season on both free-to-air networks TV5 and One Sports, and on the cable and satellite channel One Sports+. Meanwhile, Smart postpaid and prepaid subscribers can avail on live streaming platform. This is the first time that the Philippine collegiate league games broadcast on TV5 since NCAA Philippines in 2013-15 and marked the end of its 20 year relationship with ABS-CBN Corporation following the non-renewal of its congressional franchise on July 10 and the dissolution of ABS-CBN Sports division to close its business operations on August 31 during the COVID-19 pandemic in the Philippines.[62]
• October 30 - After almost 2 years of broadcasting, Liga has ceased its broadcast on pay TV by Creative Programs, Inc. (a subsidiary of ABS-CBN Corporation) due to the non-renewal of its congressional franchise on July 10 and the dissolution of ABS-CBN Sports division to close its business operations on August 31 during the COVID-19 pandemic in the Philippines. The cable channel space will be taken over by Cine Mo! in selected provincial cable providers.[63]

• November 1
  • After 7 years of broadcasting, O Shopping has ceased its operations as a pay TV channel and infomercial program by ACJ O Shopping Corporation (a joint venture between ABS-CBN Corporation and CJ ENM O Shopping Division) due to the implementation of a retrenchment program covering its business company from August 7, following the non-renewal of its congressional franchise on July 10 and CJ Group's decision to close its business operations in Southeast Asia effective December 31 amid the COVID-19 pandemic.[61][64]
  • Cine Mo! is officially made part of the channel lineups on both Cignal and SatLite of Cignal TV, following its successful launch as part of the GSat channel lineup the month before.
• November 4 - Newly relaunched cable channel TAP TV broadcasts its first news coverage straight from the US thru NBC News, the coverage of the 2020 United States presidential election.
• November 11 - Balitanghali, one of the nine surviving shows of GMA News TV since its 2011 launch and one of the last three shows inherited from its predecessor network Q, celebrated its 15th year anniversary in Philippine television.
• November 12 - The National Telecommunications Commission approved the digital broadcast of A2Z on UHF Channel 20 and now available on most digital boxes, including ABS-CBN TV Plus and GMA Affordabox.[65]
• November 13
  • iWantTFC officially made its grand launch after 2 months and 13 days of being in soft launch and the merging of iWant and TFC Online on September 1. The platform had the strategy in three different tiers that is similar used by the US-based streaming service Peacock including the free tier, the premium tier which is available for paid subscribers and through subscribing it from telco companies, and a ad-free option with the movie rental service included for an additional cost.[66]
  • Ang Pinaka, one of the nine surviving shows of GMA News TV since its 2011 launch and one of the last three shows inherited from its predecessor network Q, celebrated its 15th year anniversary in Philippine television.
• November 20
  • Myx celebrated its 20th anniversary on Philippine television. It was introduced on free-to air television through the now-defunct Studio 23 (now S+A), a sister television network of ABS-CBN during daytime and as a blocktimer.
  • GMA Network announced a 5-year deal with the National Collegiate Athletic Association to cover the games of the NCAA from seasons 96 to 101. The new broadcast deal outbids TV5/One Sports (the league's former broadcaster in seasons 89 and 90) with revenues in the new GMA deal will be donated to support the financial aid for the students of the league's particpanting colleges and it will broadcast on free-to-air news channel GMA News TV and on the network's official website; ending its second stint with ABS-CBN Corporation which began in the 91st season following the non-renewal of its congressional franchise on July 10 and the dissolution of ABS-CBN Sports division to close its business operations on August 31 during the COVID-19 pandemic in the Philippines. It will marked the return of sporting events for the network for the first time since 2018 and for the news channel in 4 years after the cancelation of News TV All Sports in 2016.[67]
• November 26 - For the first time ever, TAP TV becomes the exclusive Philippine broadcaster for the premiere live cable and satellite television broadcasts of Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade aired live via NBC from Macy's flagship store in New York City, USA. This is the first time ever that the parade will be aired live on cable and satellite since 2013, the last year that the parade was broadcast via tape delay on what is now CNN Philippines.

• December 1 - Kapwa Ko Mahal Ko celebrated its 45th year anniversary on Philippine television.
• December 11 - After almost two months of the announced broadcast deal with Cignal TV, the University Athletic Association of the Philippines announced the cancellation of its 83rd season, which supposed to schedule its first airing in 2021 on One Sports, due to the health safety of student-athletes amid the COVID-19 pandemic in the Philippines.[68]
• December 15 - Viva Entertainment launched a over-the-top content platform, VivaMax.
• December 20
  • ABS-CBN held the Christmas special broadcast of Ikaw ang Liwanag at Ligaya: The ABS-CBN Christmas Special 2020 on Kapamilya Channel, Kapamilya Online Live, A2Z, TFC, iWantTFC, KTX.ph and Kumu.
  • Jessica Villarubin of Cebu won the third season of The Clash.
• December 26 - Singer-songwriter Daryl Ong (portrayed as "2-2-B") was proclaimed the grand winner of the first season of Masked Singer Pilipinas.
• December 31 - DZIQ and its television counterpart Inquirer 990 Television has ceased its broadcasting operations by the Inquirer Group of Companies due to programming redundancies, lack of advertising support and cost-cutting measures as well as change in business directions during the COVID-19 pandemic in the Philippines.

The following are programs that debuted on ABS-CBN:

• January 5: MathDali
• March 16: 100 Days to Heaven, May Bukas Pa and On the Wings of Love
• March 21: Your Face Sounds Familiar Kids (season 1)
• March 23: Walang Hanggan, The Legal Wife, Got to Believe and Wildflower
• March 28: Sine'skwela, Bayani and Hiraya Manawari
• March 29: Pilipinas Got Talent (season 6)
• April 13: Tubig at Langis
• May 4: Meteor Garden (2018)

The following are programs that debuted on A2Z:

• October 10: Kidz Weekend
  • October 10: ATBP: Awit, Titik at Bilang na Pambata¹⁷, Bayani¹⁵⁷, Matanglawin¹⁷ and Team Yey!³
• October 12: Kidz Toon Time
  • October 12: Cedie, Ang Munting Prinsipe¹³, The Flying House¹²³, Princess Sarah¹³ and Superbook Reimagined¹³
  • December 10: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer¹³⁵
  • December 14: Dog of Flanders¹³
• October 12: School at Home
  • October 12: Alikabuk⁶⁷, Epol/Apple¹⁵⁷, Math-Tinik¹⁷, Pamana⁷, Sine'skwela¹⁵⁷ and Solved⁶⁷
  • October 13: Hiraya Manawari¹⁷
  • October 14: Karen's World⁶⁷, Kasaysayan TV⁷ and Salam¹⁷
  • October 15: MathDali¹⁵⁷
  • October 16: Gab to Go⁷
  • October 26: Wow!⁷
  • November 9: Why?⁶⁷
  • November 10: K-High⁷
  • November 12: Estudyantipid⁷
  • November 19: Agos⁷
  • December 1: Pahina¹²³
  • December 4: Carlo's Blog⁷ and Puno ng Buhay⁷
  • December 17: Tipong Pinoy²
• October 26: The Good Son¹⁴⁵

Notes
^ ^a Originally aired on ABS-CBN
^ ^b Originally aired on GMA
^ ^c Originally aired on Yey!
^ ^d Originally aired on Jeepney TV
^ ^e Originally aired on Kapamilya Channel
^ ^f Originally aired on NBN (now PTV)
^ ^g Originally aired on Knowledge Channel

The following are programs that debuted on GMA Network:

The following are programs that debuted on TV5:

• November: Frontline Eastern Visayas (TV5 Leyte)

Notes
^ ¹ Originally aired on ABS-CBN
^ ² Originally aired on Colours
^ ³ Originally aired on Sari-Sari Channel
^ ⁴ Originally aired on GMA Network
^ ⁵ Originally aired on RPN (now CNN Philippines)
^ ⁶ Originally aired on One Screen

The following are programs that debuted on People's Television Network:

• March 16: Public Briefing: #LagingHandaPH
• April 20: Tutok Tulfo 2.0 (hook-up via Radyo Pilipinas 1 738 AM)
• May 1: Counterpoint with Secretary Salvador Panelo
• July 27: PTV Balita Ngayon
• August 3: Network Briefing News
• September 7: PTV News Tonight, Rise and Shine Pilipinas and Ulat Bayan (weekday edition)
• October 5: Tutok PDEA, Kontra Droga (hook-up via Radyo Pilipinas 1 738 AM)
• November 21: Barangay 4

The following are programs that debuted on IBC:

• January 5: Misa Tradionalis Latin Mass and Cathechism
• March 23: Public Briefing: #LagingHandaPH and Sentro Balita (simulcast via People's Television Network)
• May 1: PTV News (simulcast via People's Television Network)
• August 2: FYI
• August 11: DepEd TV

The following are programs that debuted on minor networks:

The following are programs that debuted on other channels and video streaming services:

• Notes

1. ^ ^a Originally aired on ABS-CBN
2. ^ ^b Originally aired on GMA
3. ^ ^c Originally aired on TV5
4. ^ ^d Originally aired on Cine Mo!
5. ^ ^e Originally aired on Yey!
6. ^ ^f Originally aired on S+A
7. ^ ^g Originally aired on GMA News TV
8. ^ ^h Originally aired on Jeepney TV
9. ^ ⁱ Originally aired on Sari-Sari Channel
10. ^ ^j Originally aired on Hero (now defunct)
11. ^ ^k Originally aired on ETC
12. ^ ^l Originally aired on Jack TV (now defunct)
13. ^ ^m Originally aired on 2nd Avenue (now defunct)
14. ^ ⁿ Originally aired on CT (now defunct)
15. ^ ^o Originally aired on Studio 23 (now S+A)
16. ^ ^p Originally aired on Q (now GMA News TV)
17. ^ ^q Originally aired on 9TV (now CNN Philippines)
18. ^ ^r Originally aired on Fox Filipino (now defunct)
19. ^ ^s Originally aired on Kapamilya Channel
20. ^ ^t Originally aired on Metro Channel
21. ^ ^u Originally aired on Asianovela Channel
22. ^ ^v Originally aired on NBN (now PTV)
23. ^ ^w Originally aired on Knowledge Channel

The following are programs that ended on ABS-CBN:

• March 13: Make It with You and Pamilya Ko (reason: Temporary suspension of tapings due to the COVID-19 pandemic in the Philippines and shutdown of ABS-CBN. Both shows were not included in the lineup of the ABS-CBN shows that will be aired on the newly launched Kapamilya Channel.)[18][84][22][85]
• March 17: Bandila (reason: Program replaced with TV Patrol replays due to the COVID-19 pandemic and replaced with The World Tonight on Kapamilya Channel due to ABS-CBN franchise denial.)
• March 25: TV Patrol North Luzon (ABS-CBN Pampanga) (reason: Temporary suspension of telecast due to the COVID-19 pandemic and ABS-CBN franchise denial which led to end operations of TV Patrol regional shows)
• May 5: Umagang Kay Ganda (reason: Program silently cancelled due to the shutdown of ABS-CBN. Resumed on their Facebook page as Umagang Kuwentuhan live chat via Zoom platform beginning May 28.)

The following are programs that ended on A2Z:

• December 9: Princess Sarah (Kidz Toon Time)
• December 11: Cedie, Ang Munting Prinsipe (Kidz Toon Time)

The following are programs that ended on GMA Network:

• April 4: Ilaban Natin Yan! (reason: Temporary suspension of tapings due to the COVID-19 pandemic in the Philippines. The show became short-lived and was cancelled. It was replaced by its comeback premiere of Wish Ko Lang! on July 11.)

The following are programs that ended on TV5:

• August 9: Healing Galing sa TV (reason: Program replaced by Fit for Life. Program moved to UNTV on December 5 as Healing Galing Live!.)[89]
• September 9: Love Life with Kris (reason: Unknown. Show was not yet debut on the said network.)

The following are programs that ended on People's Television Network:

• January 4: Lutong-Luto with CJ Hirro
• March 18: PTV Newsbreak
• July 31: Bagong Pilipinas, Daily Info and PTV News Headlines
• September 4: PTV News

The following are programs that ended on IBC:

• January 11: ATC E-Sports Highlights
• March 1: Misa Tradionalis Latin Mass and Catechism
• June 14: El Shaddai

• September 11: Agila Balita on Net 25