Editing Test Card F (section)

==Overseas usage==
Test Card F was also used in approximately 30 countries{{Citation needed|date=September 2023}} outside the UK. Notable overseas users included:
* [[Bahrain Radio and Television Corporation]] in Bahrain<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.pembers.freeserve.co.uk/Test-Cards/Non-UK.html#Generic|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304051933/http://www.pembers.freeserve.co.uk/Test-Cards/Non-UK.html#Generic|archivedate=2016-03-04|title=Non-UK Television Test Cards, Tuning Signals, Clocks and Idents|date=March 4, 2016}}</ref>
* [[DR (broadcaster)|DR]] in Denmark<ref>{{cite web|url=https://danskradio.dk/tv.html|title=Dansk Radio - TV historie|website=danskradio.dk}}</ref> (Replaced along with [[Philips PM5552]] by the [[Philips circle pattern]] in 1970)
* [[NRK]] in Norway, briefly in the 1970s<ref name="Radios TV">{{cite web|title=Non-UK Television Test Cards, Tuning Signals, Clocks and Idents|url=http://www.radios-tv.co.uk:80/Pembers/Test-Cards/Non-UK.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190607162532/http://www.radios-tv.co.uk:80/Pembers/Test-Cards/Non-UK.html|archive-date=2019-06-07}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Testcards |url=https://testcards.retropia.co.uk/post/122749885310/nrk-norsk-rikskringkasting-test-card-f-1974 |access-date=2023-01-13 |website=Tumblr}}</ref>
* [[Sveriges Television|SVT]] in Sweden, briefly in the 1970s<ref name="Radios TV"/><ref>{{cite web |url=http://hub.tv-ark.org.uk/images/testcards/images/43_testcards/tcf_farg_tv_sweden-01.jpg |title=TCF Sweden |publisher=hub.tv-ark.org.uk |date= |accessdate=2021-03-10 |archive-date=4 March 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304090758/http://hub.tv-ark.org.uk/images/testcards/images/43_testcards/tcf_farg_tv_sweden-01.jpg |url-status=usurped }}</ref>
* [[STW|STW-9]] in Perth, Australia<ref>{{cite web|author=National Film and Sound Archive of Australia |url=https://www.nfsa.gov.au/latest/colour-tv-part-2 |title=Colour TV in Australia, Part 2 |publisher=NFSA |date= 20 February 2015|accessdate=2021-03-10}}</ref>
* [[TCN|TCN-9]] and [[TEN (TV station)|TEN-10]] in Sydney, Australia{{Citation needed|date=October 2020}}
* [[NBN Television|NBN-3]] in Newcastle, Australia
* [[Mediacorp#1965–1980: Radio Television Singapore|Radio Television Singapore (RTS)/Singapore Broadcasting Corporation (SBC)]], albeit with the original centre image replaced with another slide featuring a puppet resembling Bubbles the Clown and four girls, one of each of the [[Demographics of Singapore|four official races of Singapore]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.meldrum.co.uk/mhp/testcard/around_world.html|title=Television Graphics Around the World|website=www.meldrum.co.uk}}</ref> This particular test card was introduced in 1974 upon the introduction of colour television in Singapore, replacing a modified 625-line version of [[Test Card C]], but was later replaced by the [[Philips circle pattern]] which had likely previously been used internally.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nas.gov.sg/archivesonline/highlight?page=50moments|title=NAS 50 Moments&#124;National Archives Singapore|website=www.nas.gov.sg}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=TV-DX SBC 8 Singapore E08 04.10.1991|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BWZm5vUyrFI|website=YouTube| date=25 February 2017 }}</ref>
* [[New Zealand Broadcasting Corporation]] (NZBC) briefly used a modified version of TCF until its dissolution in 1975, replacing its common monochrome test card design dating back to the non-networked-AKTV2/CHTV3/WNTV1/[[DNTV2]] era.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Testcards |url=https://testcards.retropia.co.uk/post/144643283352/nzbc |access-date=2023-01-13 |website=Tumblr}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.oocities.org/wenlockb/icdx/outandabout11.html|title=Out and About no 11|website=www.oocities.org}}</ref><ref name="Radios TV"/> It was first introduced at the beginning of colour television broadcasts in 1973. One of the two successors of NZBC ([[South Pacific Television]]; now [[TVNZ 2]]) also occasionally used TCF and another TCF-inspired test card called T1<ref>{{Cite web |title=New Zealand |url=https://ing-sat.hu/testcard-sat/new-zealand.htm |access-date=2023-01-13 |website=ing-sat.hu}}</ref> up until approximately 1980. Upon renaming to [[TVNZ]] it subsequently replaced TCF and its variants with the [[Philips circle pattern]] which was used well into the 1990s.<ref>{{Cite web |title=TVNZ1 Testcard 1992
|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJxvi-aTnBE |access-date=2023-01-13 |website=YouTube| date=20 May 2021 }}</ref>