Coca-Cola Telecommunications

Coca-Cola Telecommunications
Founded	1986
Dissolved	1988 (folded into Columbia Pictures Television)
President
Notable Works	The Real Ghostbusters Dinosaucers Punky Brewster (Seasons 3-4) What's Happening Now!!

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Coca-Cola Telecommunications was a short-lived American television production and distribution company.

History

Coca-Cola Telecommunications (CCT) was formed in 1986 as a television unit of soft drink manufacturer The Coca-Cola Company, which also owned Columbia Pictures and its related divisions (including Columbia Pictures Television) at the time. CCT, which was created through a merger of CPT's distribution unit and The Television Program Source (a syndication company partly owned by CPT), served as the distributor for animated series The Real Ghostbusters and Dinosaucers.

In addition, when NBC cancelled their sitcom Punky Brewster, CCT assumed production and distribution of the show for syndication for two more seasons (as well as acquiring the US distribution rights to the NBC-era episodes) due to NBC being prohibited from continuing production of the show in syndication because of Federal Communications Commission regulations in place at the time regarding the US broadcast networks producing syndicated programming.

CCT ceased operations in 1988 when Coca-Cola spun off its entertainment holdings and the company was folded into a reorganized Columbia Pictures Television Distribution. Most shows previously handled by CCT are now distributed by Sony Pictures Television, with a few exceptions:

• Punky Brewster, which is distributed by SPT only in the United States while NBCUniversal Syndication Studios holds the international distribution rights
• The syndicated versions of the game shows The Price is Right (the 1985-86 version) and Card Sharks, which were produced by Mark Goodson Productions and originally distributed by CCT predecessor The Television Program Source; Fremantle North America now owns and distributes these shows through its ownership of the Goodson-Todman Productions/Mark Goodson Productions catalogue
• Hulk Hogan's Rock 'n' Wrestling and Sylvanian Families, which were produced by DIC Enterprises; WildBrain (formerly DHX Media, which acquired previous distributor Cookie Jar Entertainment in October 2012) now owns the distribution rights to both shows (with World Wrestling Entertainment owning the series copyright to Hulk Hogan's Rock 'n' Wrestling)

External links

• Coca-Cola Telecommunications projects on IMDb

• Coca-Cola Telecommunications closing logos at Closing Logos Group Wiki