Editing Test Card F (section)

==Recent years==
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In May 1983, trade test transmissions of the test card ended when Ceefax pages began to be shown during all daytime intervals. This meant that Test Card F was only seen for a few minutes early in the morning.

1992 was the last year that Test Card F was seen daily with music; 1995 was the last year it was seen with music, although it was seen until 1999 with just tone output, and Ceefax was broadcast either with tone or music. However, since the closure of Ceefax, the shutdown of analogue television transmissions, and the imposition of budgetary constraints, a new revision of the testcard can be seen daily on BBC Two and BBC Two HD at the end of the "This is BBC Two" transmission. Each morning, as the segment concludes, the testcard is broadcast for approximately one minute.

Since the late 1990s, Bubbles has only very rarely appeared on television, as Test Card F has been discontinued, and Test Cards J and W are very seldom shown, due to the advent of [[digital television]] and 24-hour programming.<ref name=meldrum/>

For the fortieth anniversary of Test Card F, there was some renewed interest in Bubbles in the media; in a 2007 interview, Hersee mentioned that she took Bubbles into school with her to prove to her [[Head teacher|headmaster]] that she really was the girl in the picture.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2009-06-27 |title=Personal Column: Test-card special - Profiles, People - The Independent |website=[[Independent.co.uk]] |url=http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/profiles/personal-column-testcard-special-450533.html |access-date=2023-01-13 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090627131751/http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/profiles/personal-column-testcard-special-450533.html |archive-date=27 June 2009 }}</ref>

The BBC website previously featured Bubbles next to a blackboard with "[[HTTP 404|404]]" inscribed on it when a user visited a page that did not exist;<ref>{{cite web|date=18 June 2016|title=Error 404 : Not Found|url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/404.html|url-status=unfit|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160403142841/http://www.bbc.co.uk/404.html|archive-date=2016-04-03|access-date=29 May 2020|website=bbc.co.uk|publisher=BBC}}</ref> however, some time between July 2017 and May 2020, this was replaced with an image of two "clangers" (animated puppets) from the BBC television show ''[[Clangers]]''.<ref>{{cite web |title=Error 404: Not Found |url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/404.html |website=bbc.co.uk |publisher=BBC |access-date=29 May 2020 |date=29 May 2020}}</ref> Similarly, in 2015 the BBC website's "[[HTTP 500|500]]" Internal Error page featured a cross-eyed Bubbles appearing in front of a blackboard with a background of fire;<ref>{{cite web |last1=Gadd |first1=Sophie |title=BBC website down: Incredibly creepy clown in error message is freaking people out |url=https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/technology-science/technology/bbc-webiste-down-creepy-clown-5333053 |website=mirror.co.uk |publisher=The Mirror |access-date=29 May 2020 |date=14 March 2015}}</ref> however, this has since been replaced with the same error message seen on the 404 page.

Prior to the relaunch of [[BBC Three]] in 2022, Test Card F aired for periods of 20 minutes.<ref>{{Cite web |title=BBC Three - This is BBC Three, HD Slide / Test Card BBC Three |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00141gd |access-date=2022-03-29 |website=BBC |language=en-GB}}</ref>