This Week in Baseball

The program was typically picked up by stations that also had television rights to major league franchises like WTBS in Atlanta, KTTV in Los Angeles, and WGN in Chicago.

According to Curt Smith's biography on Mel Allen entitled The Voice: Mel Allen's Untold Story, when NBC lost the rights to the Game of the Week to CBS (who, unlike NBC, didn't broadcast regular-season games for all 26 weeks of the season) after the 1989 season, TWIB, sans a strong anchor,[2] proceeded to either lose markets or move to weaker, (often independent) stations.

The show also aired on regional sports networks around the country, on Rogers Sportsnet in Canada, and was also often played as part of the pre-game entertainment on the TV screens of major league stadiums.

In 2007, TWIB was slated for 26 episodes running from April to the end of September, focusing on stories of various clubs and different baseball themes each week.

Video is gathered from each of the 30 Clubs' Stadium Loggers, who compile highlights of each game and send them to MLB Productions in Secaucus, NJ.

Reruns of the 1977–1998 Mel Allen version of the show was aired on ESPN Classic in the 2000s and Fox Sports 1 in 2020 when the 2020 Major League Baseball season was postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

[14][15] The opening theme music to TWIB is "Jet Set", composed by Mike Vickers, a former member of the original Manfred Mann band.

[16] It is typically played over a montage of baseball's greatest moments, building to a crescendo with a punctuated three-note chord as the MLB logo slides into view.