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''This Week in Baseball'' (abbreviated as ''TWiB'', pronounced phonetically) was an American syndicated television series which focuses on Major League Baseball. Broadcast weekly during baseball season, the program featured highlights of recent games, interviews with players, and other regular features. The popularity of the program, best known for its original host, New York Yankees play-by-play commentator Mel Allen, also helped influence the creation of other sports highlight programs, including ESPN's ''SportsCenter''. After its original syndicated run from 1977 to 1998, and gaining a revival in 2000 (which moved to Fox as a lead-in to its Saturday MLB coverage), ''TWiB'' was discontinued at the end of the 2011 Major League Baseball season, replaced by the new program ''MLB Player Poll''. ==History== When Commissioner Bowie Kuhn first took office in 1969, the only weekly showcase of Major League Baseball was its Saturday afternoon ''Game of the Week'' on NBC. On the other hand, the National Football League had produced its own syndicated highlight programs through its in-house unit NFL Films. In response to its competition, ''This Week in Baseball'' premiered in first-run syndication in 1977. The show was originally hosted by long-time New York Yankees announcer Mel Allen. 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. ''TWIB'' would also air on owned-and-operated NBC stations. 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, proceeded to either lose markets or move to weaker, (often independent) stations. Even more so, ''TWIB'' was now (under the CBS umbrella) averaging a 1-2 rating and, in several places, airing at midnight (as opposed to, for example, WNBC New York at 1:30 p.m.; in this case, however, ''TWIB'' moved to WWOR, which had the rights to the New York Mets at the time, and aired on Sunday afternoons as the Mets' lead-in). 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「This Week in Baseball」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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