Exhibit 99.1


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Contact:  Sandra  Colony | Senior Vice  President,  Corporate  Communications  |
Insight Communications | 917-286-2300
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

INSIGHT ANNOUNCES NEW EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENT OF CENTRAL OPERATIONS

NEW YORK - April 7, 2006 - Insight Communications has appointed Hamid R. Heidary
to the position of  executive  vice  president,  central  operations,  effective
immediately.  Dinni Jain, Insight's president and chief operating officer,  made
the announcement.

Heidary  will  oversee  all  of  Insight's  central  support  operations,  which
encompass  the  areas  of  network   operations,   engineering  and  information
technology. He will report to Jain and will be based primarily in New York.

Heidary   brings  to  Insight   more  than  20  years  of   experience   in  the
telecommunications and data networking industries. In his past positions, he has
served as COO of Iesy  Hessen  GmbH,  a cable  television  operator  in  Hessen,
Germany,   and  CTO  of   NTL:Europe,   a   multinational   cable  operator  and
telecommunication service provider. During his career, he has held various other
executive  technical and management  positions  with NTL UK, C-Cor  Electronics,
Inc. and Allen Bradley.

Heidary received a BSEE and MSEE from Southern Illinois University,  an MBA from
California Coast University and a certificate of corporate directorship from the
Institute of Directors in London.

Insight  Communications  is the 9th largest cable operator in the United States,
serving  approximately  1.3 million  customers in the four contiguous  states of
Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, and Kentucky. Insight offers bundled,  state-of-the-art
services  in  mid-sized  communities,   delivering  analog  and  digital  video,
high-speed Internet, and, in selected markets, voice telephony to its customers.

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