You may be seeing a lot less Colbert Report and SpongeBob SquarePants in 2009.

Viacom, the parent company of the networks that air those shows, is in tense fee negotiations with Time Warner Cable, which serves 13 million subscribers in New York, Ohio, Southern California, Texas and the Carolinas. Viacom has said MTV, Nickelodeon and 16 other channels will go dark at 12:01 a.m. Thursday if price…