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They were 24.1 million viewers. The absolute audience record in the entire history of French television was beaten on December 18 by the French football team in its final, lost on the wire against Lionel Messi’s Argentina. The 2022 World Cup reassured the front page as much as its rivals: no, dad’s television is not dead. It manages to resist powerful platforms like Netflix or Amazon Prime that are so disrupting our consumption habits. Admittedly, it is complicated to seduce increasingly demanding viewers in the face of an increasingly vast catalog of programmes. But throughout the year 2022, our good old TV has shown itself. And not only thanks to the exploits of our Blues.