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John Rook, with Phil Hawkes, served as lighting director for The Muppet Show. Rook also worked as a lighting designer or consultant on such productions as The Christmas Toy, A Muppet Family Christmas, and The Jim Henson Hour. Rook also served as lighting designer for multiple Barbra Streisand specials, and director of photography for The Earth Day Special, including the Kermit the Frog segment. According to a 1997 interview with Gary Smith, producer of the Streisand TV specials, Rook had "died just a few months ago. We all miss him personally and professionally."

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  • John Rook, with Phil Hawkes, served as lighting director for The Muppet Show. Rook also worked as a lighting designer or consultant on such productions as The Christmas Toy, A Muppet Family Christmas, and The Jim Henson Hour. Rook also served as lighting designer for multiple Barbra Streisand specials, and director of photography for The Earth Day Special, including the Kermit the Frog segment. According to a 1997 interview with Gary Smith, producer of the Streisand TV specials, Rook had "died just a few months ago. We all miss him personally and professionally."
  • John Harlan Rook is an American radio programmer known for his tenure at 50,000-watt ABC-owned WLS in Chicago; where in 1969, he was named "Radio's Man of the Year" by Variety as well as "Program Director of the Year" at the Gavin Report convention. He was also the architect of the sound of ABC's KQV in Pittsburgh in the early to mid 1960s and the program director for Los Angeles' KFI in the 1970s and KABC in the mid 1980s.
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  • John Rook, with Phil Hawkes, served as lighting director for The Muppet Show. Rook also worked as a lighting designer or consultant on such productions as The Christmas Toy, A Muppet Family Christmas, and The Jim Henson Hour. Rook also served as lighting designer for multiple Barbra Streisand specials, and director of photography for The Earth Day Special, including the Kermit the Frog segment. According to a 1997 interview with Gary Smith, producer of the Streisand TV specials, Rook had "died just a few months ago. We all miss him personally and professionally."
  • John Harlan Rook is an American radio programmer known for his tenure at 50,000-watt ABC-owned WLS in Chicago; where in 1969, he was named "Radio's Man of the Year" by Variety as well as "Program Director of the Year" at the Gavin Report convention. He was also the architect of the sound of ABC's KQV in Pittsburgh in the early to mid 1960s and the program director for Los Angeles' KFI in the 1970s and KABC in the mid 1980s.
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