In December 1982, Columbia Pictures Television agreed to license domestic distribution rights to the television series
Family to LBS.
Family was subsequently added to Colex's roster when the venture was officially formed as an entity, and the first new series added to Colex's roster was
Gidget. The venture was designed to handle syndication of various properties from CPT on an advertiser-supported barter basis and a cash basis. Initially, the billing for this entity was "A joint venture of Columbia Pictures Television and LBS Communications Inc." In 1985, this was temporarily changed to "A joint venture of LBS Communications Inc. and Columbia Pictures Television," only to revert to the previous billing within a few months. Colex formed a squad of package monikers in November 1985: • Colex First-Run - new material • Colex Premiere Movies - various movies such as eleven post-1947 Bob Hope theatrical films (collectively "Hope Diamonds") and telemovies such as
Family Reunion and
The Best Place to Be • The Colex Collection (a.k.a. Colex Off-Net) - newer off-network material with proven appeal • The Colex 3-Pack - miniseries • The Colex Classics - various classic series A year later, a duo of rearrangements with the package monikers occurred: • Colex Premiere Movies was renamed to Colex Films. •
Family was moved to The Colex Classics from Colex Off-Net, while
Ghost Story/Circle of Fear was moved to the latter from the former. By the very beginning of 1987, following the formation of
Coca-Cola Telecommunications (from a merger between sister joint venture The Television Program Source and CPT's first-run syndication unit), the billing for this entity was changed to "A joint venture of LBS Communications Inc. and Columbia Pictures Television, in association with Coca-Cola Telecommunications." Both Colex and Coca-Cola Telecommunications were eventually dissolved, following the formation of
Columbia Pictures Entertainment (from a merger between Coca-Cola's entire entertainment business and Tri-Star Pictures). The name remains a trademark of
Sony Pictures Television to this day. ==Programming distributed by Colex Enterprises==