15 – Kim de Leon and Shayne Sava of StarStruck hailed as the Ultimate Male and Female Survivors. September 16 – DZRJ 810 TeleRadyo officially launched, a digital terrestrial and cable service. All of DZRJ 810 AM simulcast programs are newly launched stand-alone digital and cable channel under test broadcast on RJdigiTV sub-channel, and it is also available via SkyCable Channel 224 in Metro Manila. September 24 – The Filipino Channel celebrated its 25th anniversary on global television. September 25 – ABS-CBN Corporation jointly ventured with American production company, Electric Entertainment for producing an upcoming American TV series to be filmed entirely in the Philippines. September 28: Since 2015, FPJ's Ang Probinsyano celebrated its 4th anniversary on television. Elaine Duran from Butuan was hailed as It's Showtime's Tawag ng Tanghalan Year 3 Grand Champion. It was held at Caloocan Sports Complex, Bagumbong, Caloocan. September 30 – Easy TV Home, a freemium digital TV subscription service, has ceased its commercial operations while only with free-to-air programming channels will continue after that date. October October 1 – After a long years of broadcast coverage, Solar Entertainment Corporation has ceased broadcast of the following channels Basketball TV and NBA Premium TV as the contract with the National Basketball Association expires on that date. ABS-CBN Sports and Fox Sports announced also that will terminating their contracts with the association after 8 years of broadcasts. After the closure of both networks and the expiration of the Solar/ABS-CBN/FNG contracts, the NBA announced that some games during the 2019–20 season will be streaming live on Facebook and Twitter while the TV broadcast deal is still on hold. Later in November, the NBA has announced that the Nine Media Corporation will assumed the free-to-air television rights for these games during the regular season thru CNN Philippines (which the network's license holder WarnerMedia News & Sports held the U.S. cable rights to the NBA); marking the return of the NBA on channel 9 since the 2010–11 season. Other BTV programs (including the National Basketball League, the Women's National Basketball League, and Liga ACB) will be migrated to Solar Sports except for the EuroLeague which has been transferred to TAP Sports 1. October 1–31 – It's Showtime, ABS-CBN's hit noontime variety show, will celebrate its 10th year in Philippine television dubbed as "Sampu-sample". The program relaunched the classic Showtime format, Sine Mo ‘To, Ansabe and AdVice Ganda. October 2 –