att absolutely will comment to its customers on negotiations. i imagine all that it would require is, for the comments to benefit PR, more than it would hurt

regarding their negotiations with amc/rainbow/cablevision, picked from this article:

http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/ATT-Fires-Up-PR-Assault-On-Cablevision-Rainbow-Networks-109371

"We don't want you to lose these channels. But neither AT&T nor you should have to pay more than the programming is worth. In order to keep prices as affordable as possible for you, we can't and won't give into networks' unreasonable demands and strong-arming. We have successfully reached hundreds of deals with other programmers, without them removing their channels. And we continue to work with AMC, IFC and WE tv to get prices that are reasonable for you."