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* On ''Not for Women Only'', an in-credit LBS logo is seen with the text "Distributed by LEXINGTON BROADCAST SERVICES" above it.
* In 1983, the text is altered to add "''', INC.'''" to the end of the text. However, the ending animation is altered to have a softer, computer-generated flash to reveal the altered text in Helvetica.
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* On most episodes of ''The Glen Campbell Music Show'', the animated logo is superimposed over the credits.
* On early '90s Family Channel airings of ''Inspector Gadget'', the logo is slightly sped up.
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* On early episodes of ''Inspector Gadget'', the logo is silent.
* On ''The Glen Campbell Music Show'', the end theme plays over the logo.
* On a Serbian-dubbed print of ''Inspector Gadget'', this logo
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* It first appeared on LBS' first nationally syndicated program ''Hot Fudge''.
* This logo
* It also appeared when This TV aired certain episodes of the aforementioned series.
* The variation with "INC." can be seen on some early episodes of ''Tales from the Darkside'' last seen on Syfy and the now-defunct Chiller.
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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 series of four small lights flashing multiple colors, 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. The LBS logo slides back into the background and, after the LBS text slides into place, a small white flash appears, leaving behind the text "LEXINGTON BROADCAST SERVICES COMPANY" in a white Futura font.
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Technique: Backlit cel animation, with chyroned text for the 1983 variant.
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, in an ITC Avant Garde font, as the LBS logo "shines" with a stripe of white inside. The shadow of the LBS logo can be seen below on the floor.
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Technique: Computer animation and chyroned text.
Audio: A nine-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, now in 3D and colored a transparent dark blue, slides in from the right side 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 twice. The logo makes a stop at the front of the screen, a spotlight illuminates the logo, and "LBS COMMUNICATIONS INC." fades in below in the same font as before, but with a metallic look to it.
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Technique: CGI.
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Visuals: On a black background, a yellow/white oval comes from the middle of the screen and swoops forwards. Then, the LBS logo in red comes down from the top of the screen, followed by a purple banner flying up as the text "15TH ANNIVERSARY" wipes in over it. After the logo is completed, the entire logo shines as "1976-1991" appear along the bottom edge of the oval.
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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