Channel 84

Channel 84
Location	Arlen, Texas
Appearances
First	"Texas City Twister"
Last	"When Joseph Met Lori, and Made Out with Her in the Janitor's Closet"

Channel 84 is one of the main TV stations in Arlen. It is unknown if Channel 84 is an affiliate station, but it cannot be a FOX station, as Hank blocks FOX, and the Hills are still able to see the station. The station manager is Tom Chick, and it originally had in its cast Miguel Hernandez as lead anchor, Nancy Hicks-Gribble as weather girl, and Don Ringle as sportscaster. Later on Irv Bennett was hired by the station to give Channel 84 an actual meteorologist give weather reports.

Nancy Hicks Gribble is one anchor at Channel 84, after being promoted from weather girl. Few members of the on-air news team have been seen, other than anchorman Miguel Hernandez.

Television Programming

• Seinfeld (televised before Channel 84 Action News)
• Channel 84 Action News
• The Manger Babies (televised after the weather report)
• Las Dias Y Los Noches de Monsignor Martinez (English: The Days and the Nights of Monsignor Martinez) (possible broadcast syndication as show is produced in Mexico)

Staff Members

• Stagehand
• Tom Chick (Station manager of Channel 84 News)
• Nancy Hicks-Gribble (Weather forecaster, news anchor for Channel 84 News, she considers herself a "weather journalist".)
• Burl Arlington (News anchor for Channel 84 News)
• Don Ringle (Sportscaster for Channel 84 News)
• Luanne Platter (Puppeteer for The Manger Babies, weather forecaster for Channel 84 News)
• Newscast Director (Live newscast director and camera operator)
• Unnamed Broadcast Television Camera Operator
• Miguel Hernandez (Lead news anchor for Channel 84 News)
• Irv Bennett (Meteorologist for Channel 84 News)

Episode appearances

Season 2

• "Texas City Twister"

Season 5

• "The Trouble with Gribbles"

Season 7

• "Board Games"

Season 9

• "Smoking and the Bandit"
• "Gone With the Windstorm"

Season 11

• "SerPUNt"
• "Hair Today, Gone Tomorrow"

Season 13

• "No Bobby Left Behind"
• "Nancy Does Dallas"
• "When Joseph Met Lori, and Made Out with Her in the Janitor's Closet"

Trivia

• Channel 84's channel number is probably a pun on old analog broadcast television channel numbers.  It is said to be a UHF station within the series, but the highest television channel number ever allocated to UHF in the United States was 83.
  • Interestingly, Channels 70-83 were taken off the air in the 80's by the FCC so the frequencies could be reallocated for mobile phone use. Thus, Channel 84 could have been interfering with cellular communications in the area considering that the show takes place between the 90's-2000's.
• In the Season 9 episode "Gone With the Windstorm", the television sitcom Seinfeld aired on Channel 84.

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