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Lexington Broadcast Services Company was a television
Television

Television is a widely used telecommunication mass-media for transmitting and receiving moving , either monochrome or color, usually accompanied by sound....
 production and syndication
Television syndication

In broadcasting, syndication is the sale of the right to broadcast radio shows and television shows to multiple individual stations, without going through a broadcast network....
 company founded in 1976 by advertising pioneer Henry Siegel. Advertising Age
Advertising Age

Advertising Age is a magazine, delivering news, analysis and data on marketing and media. The magazine was started as a broadsheet newspaper in Chicago, Illinois in 1930....
 magazine wrote of Siegel as "the man who built Lexington Broadcast Services into the nation's largest barter syndicator, and thus defined that segment of the TV ad business." It was renamed LBS Communications, Inc. in 1984.

The company was known for distributing programs from DIC Entertainment
DiC Entertainment

DIC Entertainment was an international United States film and television production company which was founded in 1971 as DIC Audiovisuel by Jean Chalopin in Luxembourg, as a subsidiary of Radio-Television Luxembourg ....
 and Columbia Pictures Television
Columbia Pictures Television

Columbia Pictures Television was the second name of the Columbia Pictures television division Screen Gems . The studio changed its name on September 4, 1974....
 (including select material from Columbia subsidiary/label Screen Gems
Screen Gems

Screen Gems is an United States subsidiary company of Sony Pictures Entertainment's Columbia Pictures that has served several different purposes for its parent companies over the decades since its incorporation....
), by way of its Colex Enterprises
Colex Enterprises

Colex Enterprises was a joint venture company between Columbia Pictures Television and Lexington Broadcast Services Company, active from 1984 to 1988....
 joint venture with Columbia, in addition to the 1991 syndicated re-launch of Baywatch
Baywatch

Baywatch is an United States television series about the Los Angeles County Lifeguards who patrol the crowded beaches of Los Angeles County, California....
.

However, in 1992, LBS Communications filed for bankruptcy
Bankruptcy

Bankruptcy is a legally declared inability or impairment of ability of an individual or organization to pay its creditors. Creditors may file a bankruptcy petition against a debtor in an effort to recoup a portion of what they are owed or initiate a restructuring....
, and was forced to sell nearly all of its assets to the Scotti Brothers' All American Television
All American Television

All American Television was a television syndication company active from 1981 to 1997. It was founded by Tony Scotti, Ben Scotti, and Joseph E....
.






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Lexington Broadcast Services Company was a television
Television

Television is a widely used telecommunication mass-media for transmitting and receiving moving , either monochrome or color, usually accompanied by sound....
 production and syndication
Television syndication

In broadcasting, syndication is the sale of the right to broadcast radio shows and television shows to multiple individual stations, without going through a broadcast network....
 company founded in 1976 by advertising pioneer Henry Siegel. Advertising Age
Advertising Age

Advertising Age is a magazine, delivering news, analysis and data on marketing and media. The magazine was started as a broadsheet newspaper in Chicago, Illinois in 1930....
 magazine wrote of Siegel as "the man who built Lexington Broadcast Services into the nation's largest barter syndicator, and thus defined that segment of the TV ad business." It was renamed LBS Communications, Inc. in 1984.

The company was known for distributing programs from DIC Entertainment
DiC Entertainment

DIC Entertainment was an international United States film and television production company which was founded in 1971 as DIC Audiovisuel by Jean Chalopin in Luxembourg, as a subsidiary of Radio-Television Luxembourg ....
 and Columbia Pictures Television
Columbia Pictures Television

Columbia Pictures Television was the second name of the Columbia Pictures television division Screen Gems . The studio changed its name on September 4, 1974....
 (including select material from Columbia subsidiary/label Screen Gems
Screen Gems

Screen Gems is an United States subsidiary company of Sony Pictures Entertainment's Columbia Pictures that has served several different purposes for its parent companies over the decades since its incorporation....
), by way of its Colex Enterprises
Colex Enterprises

Colex Enterprises was a joint venture company between Columbia Pictures Television and Lexington Broadcast Services Company, active from 1984 to 1988....
 joint venture with Columbia, in addition to the 1991 syndicated re-launch of Baywatch
Baywatch

Baywatch is an United States television series about the Los Angeles County Lifeguards who patrol the crowded beaches of Los Angeles County, California....
.

However, in 1992, LBS Communications filed for bankruptcy
Bankruptcy

Bankruptcy is a legally declared inability or impairment of ability of an individual or organization to pay its creditors. Creditors may file a bankruptcy petition against a debtor in an effort to recoup a portion of what they are owed or initiate a restructuring....
, and was forced to sell nearly all of its assets to the Scotti Brothers' All American Television
All American Television

All American Television was a television syndication company active from 1981 to 1997. It was founded by Tony Scotti, Ben Scotti, and Joseph E....
. All American would later be sold to Pearson Television
Pearson PLC

Pearson plc is a London-based education and mass media Conglomerate . It is the largest book publisher in the United Kingdom, India, Australia and New Zealand, and the second largest in the United States and Canada....
, which was in turn bought by FremantleMedia North America
FremantleMedia

FremantleMedia, Ltd. is the content and production division of RTL Group, Europe's largest TV, radio, and production company. Its world headquarters are located in London, United Kingdom....
.

TV programs

  • 21 Jump Street
    21 Jump Street

    21 Jump Street is an hour-long police drama Television program that aired on the Fox Broadcasting Company from April 12, 1987 in television to April 27, 1991 in television, with a total of 103 episodes....
     (distribution only)
  • Baywatch
    Baywatch

    Baywatch is an United States television series about the Los Angeles County Lifeguards who patrol the crowded beaches of Los Angeles County, California....
  • Coming Up Rosie
    Coming Up Rosie

    Coming Up Rosie was a Canada children's situation comedy TV series on CBC Television, aired for three seasons from 1975–1978....
  • Doctor Snuggles
    Doctor Snuggles

    Doctor Snuggles is an animated series about a friendly and optimistic inventor named Doctor Snuggles who has unusual adventures with his friends in a slightly psychedelic world....
  • Family Feud
    Family Feud

    Family Feud is a U.S. television game show that pits two families against each other in a contest to name the most popular responses to a survey-type question posed to 100 people....
     (Ray Combs
    Ray Combs

    Raymond Neil "Ray" Combs, Jr. was an United States comedy and host of the game show Family Feud on CBS and in Broadcast syndication from 1988 to 1994....
    -hosted syndicated version from 1988-1991)
  • Hazel
    Hazel (TV series)

    Hazel is a Screen Gems television series about a fictional live-in maid named Hazel Burke and her employers, the Baxters. The five-season, 154-episode series first aired September 1961-April 1966....
  • Heathcliff
    Heathcliff (comic strip)

    Heathcliff is a comic strip created by George Gately in 1973 featuring an eponymous cat. Now written and drawn by Gately's nephew, Peter Gallagher, it is distributed to over 1000 newspapers by Creators Syndicate, who took over the comic from McNaught Syndicate in 1988....
     and The Catillac Cats
    The Catillac Cats

    The Catillac Cats was the name of an animated series made in 1984 in television by DiC. The Catillac Cats formed the second half of each episode of the animated series Heathcliff ....
  • Hee Haw
    Hee Haw

    Hee Haw was a television variety show, initially co-hosted by musicians Buck Owens and Roy Clark and featuring country music and humor with fictional, rural "Kornfield Kounty" as a backdrop....
     (1971 to the mid-1980s), plus its spinoff, Hee Haw Honeys
  • Herself the Elf
    Herself the Elf

    Herself the Elf was a franchise line for young girls similar to Strawberry Shortcake. It was created by American Greetings/Mattel. It included a series of dolls, an The Magic of Herself the Elf, and animated series....
  • Hot Fudge Show
    Hot Fudge

    Hot Fudge, also known as The Hot Fudge Show, is an United States children's television series that was produced in Detroit, Michigan by WXYZ-TV and distributed by the Lexington Broadcast Services Company....
  • Hulk Hogan's Rock 'n Wrestling
    Hulk Hogan's Rock 'n Wrestling

    Hulk Hogan's Rock 'n' Wrestling is an American animated television series that originally aired on CBS Saturday mornings from September 14, 1985 to December 6, 1986....
  • Inspector Gadget
    Inspector Gadget

    Inspector Gadget is an animated television series about a clumsy, absent-minded and oblivious detective, Inspector Gadget, who is a human being with various bionic "gadgets" built into his anatomy....
  • M.A.S.K.
    M.A.S.K.

    M.A.S.K. was an animated television series directed by three uncredited Japanese studios, KK C&D Asia, Studio Juno, Studio World, Ashi Production , and produced by the French-American DiC and also the toyline of the same name sold by Kenner....
  • Monchichis
  • Pole Position
    Pole Position

    Pole Position is a racing game video game released in 1982 by Namco. In this game, the player has to complete a lap in a certain amount of time in order to qualify for an Formula One race at the Fuji Speedway....
  • Police Academy (TV series)
    Police Academy (TV series)

    Police Academy, also known as Police Academy: The Series, is a 1988 in television animated television series based on the Police Academy series of films....
     1
  • Punky Brewster
    Punky Brewster

    Punky Brewster is an United States sitcom about a girl named Punky Brewster being raised by her foster parent Henry Warnimont . The show ran on NBC from September 16, 1984 to September 7, 1986 and again in first-run Television syndication from September 26, 1986 to May 27, 1988....
  • Rollergames
    RollerGames

    RollerGames was a U.S. television series that presented a theatrical version of the sport of roller derby for a national audience, and featured a number of skaters who had been in the Roller Games league , as well as younger participants....
  • Stand Up and Cheer
  • Tales from the Darkside
    Tales from the Darkside

    Tales from the Darkside is an anthology series TV series from the 1980s produced by George A. Romero. Similar to The Twilight Zone , Night Gallery, The Outer Limits, and Tales from the Crypt , each episode was an individual short story that ended with a plot twist....
  • The Adventures of Teddy Ruxpin
    The Adventures of Teddy Ruxpin

    The Adventures of Teddy Ruxpin is an animated television series based on Teddy Ruxpin, an animatronic teddy bear created by Ken Forsse and distributed by toy manufacturer Worlds of Wonder ....
  • The Fantastic Journey
    The Fantastic Journey

    The Fantastic Journey is a short-lived 1970s United States science fiction television series in ten episodes that was originally aired on NBC from February 3 through June 17, 1977....
  • The New Adventures of He-Man
    The New Adventures of He-Man

    The New Adventures of He-Man is an animation series which ran in syndication in the fall of 1990 while Mattel released the toy line He-Man, an update of their successful Masters of the Universe line....
  • The New Gidget
    The New Gidget

    The New Gidget is a television Situation comedy that aired in Television syndication from 1986 in television to 1988 in television. The series was produced by original Gidget series producer Harry Ackerman and was launched after the television movie Gidget's Summer Reunion starring Caryn Richman as Gidget aired in 1985 in televis...
    2
  • The Popples
  • The Monkees
    The Monkees

    The Monkees were a pop singing quartet assembled in Los Angeles in 1965 in music for the United States television series The Monkees , which aired from 1966 to 1968....
     3
  • What's Happening Now!!
    What's Happening Now!!

    What's Happening Now!! is an United States sitcom which ran in Television syndication from 1985 in television to 1988 in television. It was the sequel to the sitcom What's Happening!!, which ran from 1976 in television to 1979 in television....
     2
  • Wolf Rock TV
  • Hart to Hart
    Hart to Hart

    Hart to Hart is an United States television series starring Robert Wagner and Stefanie Powers. The series was created by writer Sidney Sheldon and produced by Aaron Spelling and Leonard Goldberg....


Films

  • Heathcliff: The Movie
    Heathcliff: The Movie

    Heathcliff: The Movie is an animated film from the now-defunct DiC Entertainment, released by Atlantic Releasing on January 17, 1986. In it, the Heathcliff tells of his past exploits to his three nephews , through a compilation of episodes originally broadcast on the show....
     (1986)
  • Care Bears Movie II: A New Generation
    Care Bears Movie II: A New Generation

    Care Bears Movie II: A New Generation is an animation produced by Canadian animation studio Nelvana Limited. It was released in the United States in 1986 in film by Columbia Pictures, and was the second film based on the Care Bears toy line....
     (1986)


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