Editing SECAM (section)

== Adoption ==
A legacy list of SECAM users in 1998 is available on ''Recommendation ITU-R BT.470-6 - Conventional Television Systems, Appendix 1 to Annex 1'',<ref>{{cite book |url=https://www.itu.int/dms_pubrec/itu-r/rec/bt/R-REC-BT.470-6-199811-S!!PDF-E.pdf |title=Recommendation ITU-R BT.470-6 - Conventional Television Systems |publisher=ITU Radiocommunication Assembly |year=1998 |pages=29–34 |access-date=21 January 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220121001941/https://www.itu.int/dms_pubrec/itu-r/rec/bt/R-REC-BT.470-6-199811-S!!PDF-E.pdf |archive-date=21 January 2022 |url-status=live}}</ref> and the list before many OIRT countries migrated to PAL can be found at ''CCIR Report 624-3 Characteristics of television systems, Annex I''.<ref>{{cite book |url=https://search.itu.int/history/HistoryDigitalCollectionDocLibrary/4.282.43.en.1014.pdf |title=Recommendations and Reports of the CCIR, 1986 Volume XI - Part 1 Broadcasting Service (Television) |publisher=CCIR |year=1986 |pages=28–31 |chapter=Report 624-3 Characteristics of television systems, Annex I Systems used in various countries/geographical areas |access-date=28 July 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211109083915/https://search.itu.int/history/HistoryDigitalCollectionDocLibrary/4.282.43.en.1014.pdf |archive-date=9 November 2021 |url-status=live}}</ref>

Below is an updated list of nations that currently authorize the use of the SECAM standard for television broadcasting. It is subject to ongoing changes as nations move to PAL and [[DVB-T]]. These migrations are listed separately.

{| class="wikitable"
! SECAM users
|-
| style="width:50%;" |
* {{flag|Benin}}<ref name="HegartyPhelan1998"/>
* {{flag|Burkina Faso}}<ref name="HegartyPhelan1998"/>
* {{flag|Burundi}}<ref name="HegartyPhelan1998"/>
* {{flag|Central African Republic}}<ref name="HegartyPhelan1998"/>
* {{flag|Chad}}<ref name="HegartyPhelan1998"/>
* {{flag|Republic of the Congo}}<ref name="HegartyPhelan1998"/>
* {{flag|Democratic Republic of the Congo}}<ref name="HegartyPhelan1998"/>
* {{flag|Gabon}}
* {{flag|Guinea}}<ref name="HegartyPhelan1998"/>
* {{flag|Ivory Coast}}<ref name="HegartyPhelan1998"/>
* {{flag|Kazakhstan}}<ref name="HegartyPhelan1998"/>
* {{flag|Madagascar}}<ref name="HegartyPhelan1998"/>
* {{flag|Mali}}<ref name="HegartyPhelan1998"/>
* {{flag|Mauritania}}<ref name="HegartyPhelan1998"/>
* {{flag|Niger}}<ref name="HegartyPhelan1998"/>
* {{flag|Rwanda}}<ref name="HegartyPhelan1998"/>
* {{flag|Russia}} (first two multiplex channels transitioned to [[DVB-T2]] in 2019; full transition scheduled for 19 August 2025)<ref>{{cite web |date=2024-08-27 |title=Аналоговое вещание в России продлили ещё на два года |url=https://3dnews.ru/1110062/gkrch-eshchyo-na-dva-goda-prodlila-litsenzii-na-analogovoe-veshchanie |access-date=2024-09-03 |website=3DNews |language=ru}}</ref>
* {{flag|Senegal}}<ref name="HegartyPhelan1998"/>
* {{flag|Syria}} (Simulcast in [[PAL]]-G)<ref name="shop.sandbag.uk.com">[http://shop.sandbag.uk.com/OneGiantLeap/PALNTSCInfo.html shop.sandbag.uk.com] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160221173323/http://shop.sandbag.uk.com/OneGiantLeap/PALNTSCInfo.html |date=21 February 2016}}</ref>
* {{flag|Tajikistan}}<ref name="HegartyPhelan1998"/>
* {{flag|Togo}}<ref name="HegartyPhelan1998"/>
* {{flag|Turkmenistan}}<ref name="HegartyPhelan1998"/>
|}

=== Migration to other standards ===

==== PAL ====
; Europe
* {{flag|Bulgaria}}<ref name="HegartyPhelan1998"/> (migrated in 1994–1996)
* {{flag|Czechoslovakia}} (migrated in 1992–1994){{efn|As separate countries ([[Czech Republic]] and [[Slovakia]]) in 1993.}}
* {{flag|East Germany}} (switchover on 31 December 1991 after [[German reunification]] in 1990){{Citation needed|date=May 2024}}
* {{flag|Estonia}}<ref name="HegartyPhelan1998"/> (switchover ended in November 1999 with ETV and Kanal 2){{efn|TV3 went to PAL in 1998 and TV1 was in PAL from the beginning.}}
* {{flag|Georgia}}<ref name="HegartyPhelan1998"/> (migrated in 2000s)
* {{flag|Greece}}<ref name="HegartyPhelan1998"/> (migrated in 1992)
* {{flag|Hungary}}<ref name="HegartyPhelan1998"/> (migrated in 1995–1996)
* {{flag|Latvia}}<ref name="HegartyPhelan1998"/> (migrated in 1997–1999)
* {{flag|Lithuania|1988}} (migrated in 2002)
* {{flag|Poland}} (migrated in 1993–1995)
* {{flag|Ukraine}} (migrated in 1992–1994, simulcast in SECAM until early 2010s)<ref name="HegartyPhelan1998"/>{{Failed verification|no mention of migration over to PAL|date=March 2023}}

Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary and the Baltic countries also changed their underlying sound carrier standard on the UHF band from D/K to B/G which is used in most of Western Europe, to facilitate use of imported broadcast equipment, while leaving the D/K standard on VHF. This required viewers to purchase multistandard receivers though. The other countries mentioned kept their existing standards (B/G in the cases of East Germany and Greece, D/K for the rest).<ref>{{cite web |url=http://tech.ebu.ch/docs/i/i033.pdf |title=Changes to terrestrial television systems in Central and Eastern European countries |access-date=23 February 2010 |archive-date=17 July 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110717135202/http://tech.ebu.ch/docs/i/i033.pdf |url-status=live}}</ref>

; Africa
* {{flag|Egypt}}<ref name="HegartyPhelan1998"/> (For a few years before was simulcast){{efn|Ceased in 1992 in favour of [[PAL]]-B/G.}}

; Asia
* {{flag|Afghanistan|1992}} (migrated in the 1990s)<ref name="HegartyPhelan1998">{{cite book |author1=Michael Hegarty |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5YjHecPlPS8C&pg=PA260 |title=Classrooms for Distance Teaching and Learning: A Blueprint |author2=Anne Phelan |author3=Lisa Kilbride |date=1 January 1998 |publisher=Leuven University Press |isbn=978-90-6186-867-5 |pages=260–}}</ref>
* {{flag|Armenia}} (migrated in late 1980s)
* {{flag|Azerbaijan}}<ref name="HegartyPhelan1998"/> (migrated in 2001)
* {{flag|Cambodia|1989}}<ref name="shop.sandbag.uk.com"/> (migrated in 1991–1992, from SECAM-M to PAL-B/G)
* {{flag|Iran}}<ref name="shop.sandbag.uk.com"/> (reverted in 1998 to PAL-B/G)
* {{flag|Laos}} (migrated in the 1990s from SECAM-M)
* {{flag|North Korea}} (migrated in 1993)<ref name="HegartyPhelan1998"/>
* {{flag|Saudi Arabia}} (simulcast in NTSC, SECAM and PAL&mdash;before switching to PAL entirely in the late 1990s or early 2000s){{Citation needed|date=December 2023}}
* {{flag|Vietnam}} (brief simulcast in [[NTSC]]){{efn|Migrated in the 1990s, from SECAM-M to PAL-D/K.}}

==== DVB ====
{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Country
! Switched to
! Switchover completed
|-
| {{FRA}}
| [[DVB-T]]
| <span style="display:none">2011-11-29</span>29 November 2011
|-
| {{GUF}}
| DVB-T
| <span style="display:none">2011-11-29</span>29 November 2011
|-
| {{PYF}}
| DVB-T
| <span style="display:none">2011-11-29</span>29 November 2011
|-
| {{GLP}}
| DVB-T
| <span style="display:none">2011-11-29</span>29 November 2011
|-
| {{KGZ}}
| [[DVB-T2]]
| <span style="display:none">2015</span>2015
|-
| {{MTQ}}
| DVB-T
| <span style="display:none">2011-11-29</span>29 November 2011
|-
| {{MUS}}
| DVB-T and DVB-T2
| <span style="display:none">2013</span>2013
|-
| {{MYT}}
| DVB-T
| <span style="display:none">2011-11-29</span>29 November 2011
|-
| {{MCO}}
| DVB-T
| <span style="display:none">2011-05-24</span>24 May 2011
|-
| {{MAR}}
| DVB-T
| <span style="display:none">2015</span>2015
|-
| {{NCL|size=43px}}
| DVB-T
| <span style="display:none">2011-11-29</span>29 November 2011
|-
| {{REU}}
| DVB-T
| <span style="display:none">2011-11-29</span>29 November 2011
|-
| {{BLM}}
| DVB-T
| <span style="display:none">2011-11-29</span>29 November 2011
|-
| {{SPM}}
| DVB-T
| <span style="display:none">2011-11-29</span>29 November 2011
|-
| {{TUN}}
| DVB-T
| <span style="display:none">2015</span>2015
|-
| {{UZB}}
| DVB-T and DVB-T2
| <span style="display:none">2015</span>2015
|-
| {{WLF}}
| DVB-T
| <span style="display:none">2011-11-29</span>29 November 2011
|}