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<u>Nicknames</u>: "The Coke Box", "The Coke Swirl", "The Coca-Cola Box"

<u>Logo</u>: On a black background is a <span style="color:#ff0000;">red</span> box with the Coca-Cola "Dynamic Ribbon" in it outlined in black (the space under it is decorated with horizontal black lines). Under that is:

<span style="line-height:2;"><div style='text-align: center;'>A unit of <span style="font-family:'Times New Roman';">'''''Coca-Cola''''' <u>'''<span style="font-size:larger;">T</span>ELEVISION'''</u></span></div></span>

<u>Variant</u>: A videotaped variant exists that has the text ''Exclusive Distributor'' below.

<u>FX/SFX</u>: Just the logo fading.

<u>Music/Sounds</u>: A light synthesized 6-note tune that sounds somewhat similar to the flute solo at the start of "Sledgehammer" by Peter Gabriel.

 

:*Originally seen on 1987 episodes of ''The Real Ghostbusters'', season 3 of ''Punky Brewster'', and ''Dinosaucers'', among other shows, as well on the TV movie incarnation of ''Dennis the Menace'' (a.k.a. ''Dennis the Menace: Dinosaur Hunter''), but was plastered (along with the LBS logo) by the SPT logo on recent prints, however the "Coca Cola Telecommunications Presents" text at the beginning was intact (on AT&T's now defunct streaming service Screen Pack, the opening text was deleted). It is preserved on the Vidmark Entertainment VHS and Laserdisc releases, however.

:*The logo was plastered on USA and Fox Family Channel reruns of ''The Real Ghostbusters'', as well as the more recent Sony and [[Time-Life Video|Time-Life]] DVD releases, though it was spotted on two episodes of the said show on Canada's Teletoon Retro, "Ain't NASA-sarily So" and "Doctor, Doctor".

:*Columbia reportedly put the 1988 and 1989 CPT logos at the end of ''Punky Brewster'' reruns when they were more common, and the logo was plastered by the 1993 CPTD or 1996 CTTD logos on the Family Channel reruns and it hasn't been aired since.

:*More recently, the logo was spotted on a bonus ''Sylvanian Families'' episode (after a 1990 "Kid in Bed" plaster!) on the [[United American Video Corporation|UAV]]/[[Sterling Entertainment Group|Sterling]] ''Care Bears'' DVD ''To the Rescue'' (now out of print), on the special ''Meet Julie'' on [[DIC Entertainment|DiC]]'s KEWL Cartoons website (later taken down, but could be accessed through Feedage.com until KEWL Cartoons shut down completely).

:*As for the "Exclusive Distributor" variant, it's extremely rare, and was only seen on reruns of ''Punky Brewster'' and a few older reruns of ''The Real Ghostbusters''; it is intact on current prints of season 3 of the former followed by the current NBCUniversal Television Distribution logo. It was plastered over by the 2004 NBC Universal Television Distribution logo on the season 3 DVD released by Shout! Factory.

:*This logo has also turned up on at least one local rerun episode of ''Hardcastle and McCormick'', following both the [[Cannell Entertainment|Stephen J. Cannell Productions]] and the 1987 [[LBS Communications|LBS Distribution]] logos.

:*Recently, it was retained on DHX Media Retro's YouTube Channel print of ''Starcom: The U.S. Space Force'', after the Cookie Jar logo and is retained on Mill Creek's DVD release.

:*It is also at the end of the ''Blue Thunder'' game for the infamous Action Max console.

:*The variant with the clearer synths in the music appears on episode 2 of Season 2 to ''The New Gidget'', & can be viewed on CTV Throwback, where the whole series can be streamed.  

<u>Editor's Note</u>: This is a very soothing logo. It's a favorite to many, despite its rarity. This also briefly replaced the Colex logo on shows distributed from them.