Coca-Cola Telecommunications (CCT) was a short-lived first-run syndication unit of Columbia Pictures Television (then a unit of The Coca-Cola Company) created on November 24, 1986, that was a merger between CPT's first-run syndication division and The Television Program Source. The Television Program Source was a joint-venture between Alan Bennett, former King World president Robert King, and CPT that was founded on October 15, 1984. History The company brought on to revive the Screen Gems line, used for obscure and vintage never-before-seen Columbia Pictures Television programming, and assisted in colorization of black-and-white television shows, the 1950s programs The Real McCoys and The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp, and bought a minority interest in Color Systems Technology. In 1987, Coca-Cola acquired assets of The Television Program Source outright, which included the assets, program and personnel, and Bob King would be president of the Coca-Cola Telecommunications division, and the company was responsible for the production and distribution of programming first-run syndication, basic cable and pay TV, home video and home shopping. Also that year, Coca-Cola Telecommunications and colorizing company CST Entertainment had set up a joint venture, Screen Gems/CST Entertainment, in order to share profits from sales to TV, basic cable and home video, in order to distribute the libraries of vintage films and TV series. Following on from the success of the program The New Gidget, Coca-Cola Telecommunications took them to do pilots for weekly series, one based on the Ben Casey character, and partnered with Tribune Entertainment on two projects such as Gunfighter, which was produced by Sonny Grosso and Larry Jacobson of Grosso-Jacobson Productions, which was pitched for the Tribune Broadcasting stations, and one with DIC Entertainment on a 90-minute block of three-animated half-hour programs, which went by two different names, Funday Sunday, if it run on Sunday, or Funtastic Saturday, if they want to go head to head with the kidvid blocks on Saturday mornings. In March 1987, a new company partnered with Paramount Domestic Television had set up International Advertising Sales to held the barter spots for all programs that were produced by Coca-Cola Telecommunications, which included futures from Merv Griffin Enterprises, and Paramount Domestic Television, and Orbis Communications is going to be the third part of the venture, in order to sell national ad time for the company, and sell not only Coke and Paramount's barter sales but its own. In late March 1987, Screen Gems/CST