The 7th TVyNovelas Awards were an academy of special awards to the best soap operas and TV shows. The awards ceremony took place on May 10, 1989 in Centro Libanés, Mexico D.F. The ceremony was televised in Mexico by Canal de las Estrellas.

Amor en silencio is a Mexican telenovela produced by Carla Estrada for Televisa in 1988. Its first broadcast was in Mexico in 1988 and then made its debut in Latin America, Europe, Asia and, in a unique situation, it was broadcast in the United States by Telemundo during primetime. It can be said that this is the only Televisa telenovela that was never shown on Univision. Back then Telemundo got the rights to Amor en silencio and Pasión y poder, the latter one got picked up by Univision in 1993 as daytime programming.