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10/06/2016

These are the TV channels getting crushed by people ditching their expensive cable packages

Cable TV companies could lose nearly $1 billion to people cutting the cord over the next year, but some channels will be hit harder than others.

Earlier this year, analysts at Barclays argued that channels you watch when you're feeling lazy, "inertia channels," will have a tough time competing moving forward. Others, like BTIG's Rich Greenfield, have questioned the value of ESPN.

But looking to the past can give us a flavor of what will happen in the future. On Wednesday, CNBC's Carl Quintanilla tweeted a chart from Deutsche Bank, which showed the linear TV channels with the biggest subscriber losses over the last four years.

In it you can see both "inertia" channels and "sports" channels have been hit hard. MTV and VH1, which are great for simply flipping to without knowing exactly what's on, saw big losses, as did ESPN and ESPN2. The Weather Channel saw the biggest dip.

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