The following is a list of events affecting Philippine television in 2019. Events listed include television show debuts, finales, cancellations, and channel launches, closures and rebrandings, as well as information about controversies and carriage disputes. Events January January 1: ABS-CBN Corporation extends the free trial broadcasts of additional digital terrestrial television channels available exclusively on ABS-CBN TV Plus, such as Asianovela Channel, Movie Central, Myx, Jeepney TV and O Shopping. MTVph was officially closed and it was switched back to MTV Asia. After 1 year of carriage disputes, both Solar Entertainment Corporation channels Jack TV and Solar Sports were returned to Sky Cable. Meanwhile, Basketball TV and NBA Premium TV were also returned to Sky Cable, Sky Direct and Sky On Demand as immediately after 2 months of their disputes. Sky Cable terminated GNN on its line-up due to being unable to agree on both sides for the renewal terms on its channel carriage. January 4 – After nearly 7 months of preparation and conducting its test broadcast on major cable and satellite providers, RJTV officially started its broadcast on digital terrestrial television with its first two subchannels namely, "RJTV" and "Oras ng Himala" of Jesus is our Shield Worldwide Ministries. It was initially set to launch on July 15, 2018, but delayed to the 1st quarter of 2019, the network plans to accommodate six and 1seg digital channels that will air local & foreign content and considering launch its two "Teleradyo" style subchannels for sister stations Radyo Bandido 810 AM and RJ 100.3 FM. January 9 – After 6 years and 10 months, Hyper was rebranded as One Sports, the relaunch of international and localized sports channel in partnership with MVP-owned media properties 5 and ESPN5. WWE Smackdown was the first program aired on the newly rebranded channel. January 12 – After 7 years of broadcast, AksyonTV ended its commercial operations on Saturday evening January 13 – 5 gets a new refreshed logo and along with its sister network, AksyonTV officially relaunched as 5 Plus. 5 Plus's programs now airs additional sports content and sports-related programs targeted at millennials; it also serves as a competitor to ABS-CBN's S+A, which also carries the same format. All of Radyo5 simulcast programs moved to the newly launched stand-alone satellite channel under test broadcast, exclusively on pay TV satellite service, Cignal. January 24 – ABS-CBN Corporation quietly sold 49% of AMCARA Broadcasting Network