My recording starts at 6am m-thr, and I actually have FFW a bit to when the show starts. Unless you consider freds buffers as the start of the show, which i don't
Heh, I suppose it all counts as how you look at it.
Usually American Nightmare starts up right about 6. Maybe it's 5:59 one day and 6:01 the next. Howard usually lets the opening notes play, or sometimes the song will play a little longer.
It's never an accurate science.
A lot of it is also how long the "live in Howard's studio" song is. Speaking of which, whoever mixes that stuff together is GOOD. Sometimes we'll hear Great American Nightmare start during the previous song's applause, and sometimes we'll hear the (is it a gag noise?)
I've also heard Howard come live during the opening song in at least on Sirius show. Sometimes he'll start talking during the "breathing" bits of American Nightmare. And once in a while, we'll hear the second verse.
For me, the show starts with the opening bits and ends with the final notes of Tortured Man. Why rob myself of extra show, even if it is just pre-recorded bits? Some people consider the end of the show as the start of the news, some people consider the end of the show with "and that's what's happening" and other people consider Fred's plugs to be the end of the show.
It's all how you look at it. No one's wrong, but why rob yourself of the few extra minutes?
How many other radio or TV shows go live before their scheduled start time and run long? (Other than live sports, which always run long?)