Those that made improvements included Fox News, up 2% to 1.6 million; HGTV 13% higher to 1.49 million; Discovery, 16% more to 1.42 million; Food Network, adding 5% to 1.07 million; and ID up 8% to 873,000.
The top three ad-supported cable networks showed losses: TNT was off 15% to 2.07 million average viewers; USA Network giving up 16% to 1.7 million; and TBS, down 4% to 1.67 million.
One of the bigger declines among top cable channels came with A&E Network, sinking 22% to 957,000 average prime-time viewers.
Thirteen networks averaged 1 million or more prime-time viewers in the second quarter 2015 -- down from the 17 networks a year ago.
Some networks ranked 20 through 30 had a better time making improvements: Hallmark Channel gaining 7% to 679,000; Animal Planet, inching up 1% to 671,000; TV Land, 3% higher to 604,000; and Hallmark Movies & Mysteries, adding 42% to 438,000.
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With 20+ Minutes of obnoxious and/or offending commercials per hour, screen-obscuring promos, cheaply-produced "reality" programming and scripted programming with political sermons built in to them along with ever-rising subscription rates, I TV is in the greatest shape it is ever been in, so why are viewers leaving it?