If you’re a Time Warner Cable customer facing the looming midnight loss of Comedy Central, MTV and 17 other Viacom-owned TV channels, AT&T wants your ear.

AT&T’s U-verse, the Internet-based TV service, just completed a “new, multi-year, multifaceted agreement with Viacom,” says Deborah Lieberman, an AT&T spokesperson who jumped on the very-public dispute between the nation’s second largest cable TV company and Viacom.

“The good news for displaced cable subscribers looking for their favorite Viacom channels is that they have an alternative with AT&T U-verse TV,” she said.

Viacom and Time Warner are at odds over increased fees Viacom wants Time Warner to pay to get its selection of channels and TV shows, which include “SpongeBob Squarepants,” “The Daily Show” with Jon Stewart,” “South Park,” “The Hills,” and several others. 

Viacom said it was asking for what amounted to a penny per day per cable subcriber. Time Warner balked, saying the increase was 22 percent to 36 percent per channel for a total of $39 million more. Viacom now plans to let its channels go dark after midnight tonight if an agreement is not reached.

AT&T, which offers its U-verse TV service in limited areas of Orange County, said that in addition to offering the channels in dispute, U-verse plans to add 7 Viacom high-definition channels in 2009.

Earlier:

• Time Warner Cable may lose Jon Stewart, MTV, more
• What has Time Warner Cable done for you lately? (Dec. 30, 2008)
• Time Warner Cable raising prices in 2009 (Dec. 29, 2008)
• Time Warner Cable ‘adopts’ O.C. families (Dec. 24, 2008)
• Time Warner’s O.C. phone outage felt in Hawaii (Dec. 23, 2008)
• The weekly Time Warner Cable status report (Dec. 22, 2008)
• Is Time Warner Cable’s Internet outage really fixed? (Dec. 16, 2008) 

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