Coca-Cola Telecommunications: Difference between revisions

'''Coca-Cola Telecommunications''' was a short-lived television distribution arm of The Coca-Cola Company, the former owner of [[Columbia Pictures]] that specialized in first-run syndicated programming. It was established on November 24, 1986 under [[Columbia Pictures Television]] via a merger between CPT's first-run division and The Television Program Source. A production division was formed 2 months later in January 1987. On December 21, 1987, Coke spun-off its entertainment business and sold it to [[TriStar_Pictures|Tri-Star Pictures, Inc.]], who then renamed the business to "Columbia Pictures Entertainment, Inc." (now "Sony Pictures Entertainment Inc.") and merged the theatrical banners. 10 days later, on New Year's Eve, Coca-Cola Telecommunications closed its doors and was folded into the reorganized Columbia Pictures Television Distribution (now [[Sony Pictures Television]]). Today, Sony distributes ''Punky Brewster'' in the United States, while [[NBCUniversal Syndication Studios]] (formerly "[[NBCUniversal Television Distribution]]") owns the show and handles global rights. It also owns ''The Real Ghostbusters'', ''Dinosaucers'', and ''Dennis the Menace: Dinosaur Hunter'' (international rights of the latter, however, lie with [[WildBrain]], previously [[Cookie Jar Entertainment]]), while ''Sylvanian Families'' and ''Starcom: The U.S. Space Force'' are now owned by WildBrain.