Television timeout

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• American football
  American football
  
  American football, known in the United States and Canada simply as football, is a competitive team sport known for mixing strategy with physical play....
  : after a score, after a change of possession either by a punt or turnover, when a timeout is called, each two minute warning. There is no TV timeout immediately after a touchdown
  Touchdown
  
  A touchdown is the primary method of scoring in American football and Canadian football....
  ; it is taken after a conversion has been attempted. In the NFL
  National Football League
  
  The National Football League is the Major North American professional sports leagues American football Sports league in the United States. It is an unincorporated 501#501.28c.29.286.29 association controlled by its members....
  , television time outs are also taken after a kickoff, except to start each half or if there is less than 5 minutes to play in the 2nd or 4th quarters. TV time outs are also taken during a challenge, in which a member of the coaching staff throws a red flag onto the field to challenge a play, or during an injury time out, called when a player is slow to get up following a play.
• Australian rules football
  Australian rules football
  
  Australian football, or simply known as football, footy, Aussie rules or as AFL, is a team sport played between two teams of 18 players with a football in the shape of a prolate spheroid....
  : after a goal has been scored, before the umpire bounces the ball in the centre square. There is no TV timeout after a point is scored.
• Baseball
  Baseball
  
  Baseball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two team sport of nine players each. The goal of baseball is to score run by hitting a thrown Baseball with a baseball bat and touching a series of four markers called base arranged at the corners of a ninety-foot square, or diamond. Players on one team take turns hitting against...
  : at the end of a half-inning
  Inning
  
  Inning is a Municipalities of Germany in the district of Erding in Bavaria in Germany....
  ; during a pitching change.
• Bowling
  Bowling
  
  Bowling is a game in which players attempt to score points by rolling a bowling ball along a flat surface either into objects called Bowling pin or to get close to a target ball....
  : Varies.
• College basketball
  College basketball
  
  College basketball most often refers to the American basketball competitive governance structure established by the National Collegiate Athletic Association ....
  : at the first dead ball
  Dead ball
  
  Dead ball is the term used in various sports to indicate the ball has a status where it may not be played. For details regarding various sports, see the following....
   after 4 minute intervals (beyond the 16:00, 12:00, 8:00 and 4:00 minute mark of each half).
• Cricket
  Cricket
  
  Cricket is a Bat-and-ball games team sport that originated in southern England. The earliest definite reference is dated 1598, and it is now played in more than 100 countries....
  : Generally at the end of some overs as the field switches around, when a wicket
  Wicket
  
  In the sport of cricket the word wicket has several distinct meanings:...
   falls, during drinks breaks and during intervals.
• Curling
  Curling
  
  Curling is a team sport with similarities to bowls and shuffleboard, played by two teams of four players each on a rectangular sheet of carefully prepared ice....
  : at the conclusion of each end. The game generally resumes before the commercial break ends, so when the broadcast comes back on a few rocks will have already been thrown.
• Ice hockey (NHL): during stoppages of play, at the discretion of the TV timeout coordinator and typically after passing the following marks of each period (Less than 14:00, Less than 10:00 and Less than 6:00 minutes) in each period. One of the linesmen
  Official (ice hockey)
  
  In ice hockey, an official is a person who has some responsibility in enforcing the rules and maintaining the order of the game. There are two categories of officials, on-ice officials, who are the referees and linesmen that enforce the rules during game play, and off-ice officials, who have an administrative role rather than...
   wears a pager that alerts him when a TV timeout should be taken. TV timeout do not take place while a team is shorthanded due to penalties, it would then occur after the first whistle following the team's return to full strength, they do on occasion take place prior to the power play beginning. Timeouts also do not occur immediately after a goal or after an Icing infraction. TV timeouts are rarely, if ever, taken during overtime
  Overtime (ice hockey)
  
  Overtime, in ice hockey, is a method of determining the winner and loser of ice hockey matches should a game be tied after regulation. Two main methods include the overtime period , and the Penalty shootout....
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• NBA: at the first dead ball after quarter intervals (6:00, 3:00) First TV timeout is charged to the home team and second TV timeout is charged to the away team, assuming no other timeouts have been called (those would then replace the mandatory TV timeouts). In addition, a timeout at 9:00 in the second and fourth quarter charged to neither team.
• Tennis
  Tennis
  
  Tennis is a sport played between two players or between two teams of two players each . Each player uses a strung racquet to strike a hollow rubber Tennis ball covered with felt over a net into the opponent's tennis court....
  : during the break between odd-numbered games when players change ends.