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* On early '90s Family Channel airings of ''Inspector Gadget'', the logo is slightly sped up.
'''Technique:'''
'''Audio:''' An uplifting synth tune accompanied by a rising series of beeps, and a synthesized "zap" accompanying the flash. All three elements of the soundtrack sound like they were made on a Moog synthesizer.
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* There is a superimposed version seen on a PSA for ''Kideo TV'' where the "LBS COMMUNICATIONS, INC." text is in a different font and is {{color|blue}}, with "KIDEO-TV IS A TRADEMARK OF LBS COMMUNICATIONS INC." below the logo.
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'''Audio:''' A 9-note synthesizer score ending in two drumbeats
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* On the ''What's Happening Now!!'' episode "Mr. First Nighter", it uses the 1982 CPT music.
* On the superimposed ''Kideo TV'' variant,
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* This logo is the easiest to find from the company.
* The videotaped version survived on ''Tales from the Darkside'' on the now defunct Chiller and Syfy,
* The videotaped version of this logo, along with the videotaped variant of the DIC Entertainment "Vortex" logo also appears on the 1991 UK VHS release of ''Heathcliff And Cats And Company: Xmas Memories'' from [[Tempo Video]].
* The 2007 CBS Television Distribution logo plastered this logo on ''Tales From The Darkside'' DVD releases, Comet airings, and Horror Channel airings in the UK, but it's intact on DVD releases of ''The Adventures of Teddy Ruxpin'' and ''What's Happening Now!!'', as well as uploads to the official [[The Jim Henson Company]] YouTube channel of the former.
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Lexington Broadcast Services (commonly known by its initials, "LBS") was created in 1976 by Henry Siegel. It was reincorporated to "LBS Communications, Inc." in 1984. LBS also joined forces with Columbia Pictures Television to create "Colex Enterprises", which distributed TV series by Screen Gems and CPT. Over the years, the company would produce/distribute television shows such as Inspector Gadget and Heathcliff (DiC), What's Happening!! and What's Happening Now!! (CPT), Baywatch and Family Feud (Mark Goodson), and World of Wrestling. LBS was also an ad-sales barter until they formed "TV Horizons".
After Colex Enterprises dissolved in 1986, LBS Communications began to lose money and filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in 1991. This left the company to sell more than 80% of its assets to All American Television in March 1992. LBS would live on in the 1990s as an in-name-only unit of All American Television, which was sold to Pearson, plc. in 1997 and renamed to Pearson Television; the production company would close in 2001.
Today, most of the LBS library, with the exceptions of their DiC co-productions (WildBrain), What's Happening Now!! (Sony Pictures Television), and Care Bears Movie II: A New Generation (Columbia Pictures), is owned by Fremantle.
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1st Logo (September 1976-1984) | 2nd Logo (June 27, 1984-March 26, 1988) | 3rd Logo (April 12, 1987-April 27, 1991) | 4th Logo (September 23, 1991-May 18, 1992) |
Visuals: On a black background, a white beam of light with several twinkles on it "scans" across the screen, leaving a large fused "LBS", consisting of an "L" and "S" nearly fused together and a "B" in the gap between them, in its trail in the center of the screen, which then slides back a little. After the LBS text slides, a small white flash appears, leaving behind the text "LEXINGTON BROADCAST SERVICES COMPANY" in white.
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Technique: Backlit animation.
Audio: An uplifting synth tune accompanied by a rising series of beeps, and a synthesized "zap" accompanying the flash. All three elements of the soundtrack sound like they were made on a Moog synthesizer.
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Visuals: On a shaded violet gradient background with a floor, a curved "LBS" (exactly like in the 1st logo, but in a medium shade of light blue) zooms out while "unfolding" and stops in the center of the screen. "LBS COMMUNICATIONS INC." wipes in under the logo as the LBS logo "shines". The shadow of the LBS logo can be seen below on the floor.
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Technique: Computer animation.
Audio: A 9-note synthesizer score ending in two drumbeats, composed by Andrew Holtzman.
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Visuals: On a black background, a group of round balls pan to the left of the screen. The "LBS" logo slides in from the right of the screen and the camera revolves to the front of it, during which two groups of 5 conical lights (possibly representing meteors) streak through. The logo makes a stop at the front of the screen, a spotlight illuminates the logo, and "LBS COMMUNICATIONS INC." fades in below.
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Technique: CGI.
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Visuals: It starts out with a yellow/white oval coming out first. Then, the LBS logo in red goes down from the top of the screen, and afterwards, it displays a purple banner which reads "15TH ANNIVERSARY". After the logo is completed, the entire logo shines near "1976-1991" (the dates).
Technique: 2D computer animation.
Audio: Either a mellow synthesizer score with a "ching" sound to indicate the shine, a five-note somber tune with synth guitar chords, of which a short version exists, or none.
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