[quote name=\'zachhoran\' date=\'Feb 20 2005, 07:31 AM\']I've started taping for the two minutes before and the two minutes after, for the rare occasions I tape GSN. They are pretty good about starting things at least within a minute of the scheduled time
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Marathons and other blocks that contain wraparounds are the only things you have to watch out for on this network. Back in the hayday of Nickelodeon in the late-80s, shows did tend to start a minute or two off either way. Sometimes, Boomerang, the Cartoon Network spin-off channel that runs without commercials (for now at least), doesn't always start programs right on the hour or half-hour. (In fact, as I type this, Boomerang started
Shirt Tales at 9:58 this morning.)
Of course, the broadcast networks have been doing this a lot this season.
ER has started at 9:59 for years, but lately ABC's
Wife Swap and
Boston Legal have been starting at 10:02, and NBC used to be notorious for making its Thursday sitcoms 40 minutes (according to rec.arts.tv, 6 of the 10 extra minutes are extra commercials). If this keeps up, the days of 30- and 60-minute programs may be numbered.