DirecTV vs. Viacom squabble could see Nick, MTV, Comedy Central and 24 others go dark at midnight. In other words no SpongeBob, Dora, iCarly and more. This happens ONLY if you have DirecTV. Both Viacom and DirecTV have their own sides to this issue. DirecTV says that they demanded Viacom to not rise their prices to continue lowered price programming. Viacom says that DirecTV dismissed their price rise and will be suspending these channels. If this is to confusing, basically Viacom wants for DirecTV owners to pay more for their channels and DirecTV says no.


http://www.engadget.com/2012/07/10/directv-viacom-dispute-mtv-comedy-central/