The Channel Hookup is a printout of a lighting database such as Lightwright that organizes all the lighting information for a stage show by the channel number associated with the lighting equipment and limits the information associated with a particular lighting instrument such that a designer or electrician can access needed information rapidly and efficiently.

Lighting equipment is often organized by lighting system thereby granting coherence to consecutive channel numbers. Channels 1 through 10 might be Frontlight while 21 through 30 could be Sidelight from left. In Repertory Opera and other large venues channel numbers are often granted to lighting equipment by position as the purpose of the light will change from show to show. A frontlight is a system of illuminating a screen, commonly an LCD, so that it can be used in dark environments or those where ambient lighting is poor. ... The New Opera in Oslo, Norway The Teatro alla Scala in Milan, Italy. ...

A Channel Hookup will commonly include Channel, Dimmer, Color, Template and Purpose information