Editing Test Card F (section)

==Audio accompaniment==
{{See also|Test card music}}
A sound of some kind is usually transmitted in the background. It is either music, usually a composition commissioned by the station itself or "royalty-free" [[stock music]], or a steady tone.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Roberts |first=Neville |url=https://rssconsultancy.co.uk/articleTCM.pdf |title=A History of Test Card Music}}</ref> Composers whose music has been used include [[Roger Roger (composer)|Roger Roger]], [[Johnny Pearson]], [[Neil Richardson (composer)|Neil Richardson]], [[Frank Chacksfield]], [[Syd Dale]], [[John Cameron (musician)|John Cameron]], [[Brian Bennett]], [[Keith Mansfield]], and [[Alan Hawkshaw]].<ref name="doll">{{Cite book |last=Tony |first=Currie |url=https://www.chandos.net/chanimages/Booklets/FBCD2000.pdf |title=The Girl, The Doll, The Music - essay included as the notes for "Test Card Classics, Chandos CD FBCD 2000" |publisher=Chandos |year=1998}}</ref>

In recent years, the Test Card is only shown during engineering tests on the BBC and is accompanied by a steady tone of various pitches accompanied by a [[TIM the speaking clock|female talking clock]]. Test Card music had ceased to be frequently heard with the test card by the end of the 1980s, although it continued to be played over [[Pages from Ceefax]] until the termination of that service on 22 October 2012.<ref>{{Cite news |date=2012-10-23 |title=Ceefax service closes down after 38 years on BBC |language=en-GB |work=BBC News |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-20032882 |access-date=2023-01-13}}</ref>