The following is a list of events effecting Philippine television in 1989. Events listed include television show debuts, finales, cancellations, and channel launches, closures and rebrandings, as well as information about controversies and carriage disputes.
September: ABS-CBN makes history with satellite broadcasts to Filipinos living in the Northern Mariana Islands and Guam, the first overseas broadcasts for a Philippine television network via satellite relay.
October 8: Radio Philippines Network is relaunched as the New Vision 9 network with its tagline "The Future", while RPN remains its corporate name, its news service is rebranded as News9.
December 1–9: Coverage of the 1989 Philippine coup attempt airs on all stations, with ABS-CBN making one of the first nationwide via satellite news coverages ever made.
18 February 1989:Eat... Bulaga! hosts (L-R) Vic Sotto, Coney Reyes, Aiza Seguerra, Joey de Leon and Tito Sotto on the TV special "Eat... Bulaga!: Moving On", marking the show's transfer from RPN 9 to ABS-CBN 2
February 13 - Kenneth Ken Punzalan, actor and dancer
March 3 - Sef Cadayona, actor
March 7 - Gerald Anderson (Born Gerald Randolph Opsima Anderson Jr.), Filipino American actor (The Former Loveteam of Kim Chiu in 4 years "2006-2010" and Sarah Geronimo in 1 year "2011-2012" and Former Relationship of Maja Salvador in 2 years In their Break-up "2013-2015").
March 17 - Kirby de Jesus
April 2 - Danita Paner, Filipina singer and actress
