PRESS RELEASE

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Contact:  Dinni Jain,  Senior Vice  President & Chief  Financial  Officer
          (917) 286-2300

                            INSIGHT MIDWEST ANNOUNCES
                       PROPOSED $175 MILLION DEBT OFFERING

     NEW YORK,  NY  (DECENBER  11,  2002) - Insight  Midwest,  L.P.  and Insight
Capital, Inc. today announced a $175 million bond offering to repay a portion of
the outstanding debt under a subsidiary's credit facility.

     The offering will be a private  placement under Rule 144A of the Securities
Act of 1933 and  will be made  only to  qualified  institutional  buyers  and to
certain  persons in  offshore  transactions  in reliance  on  Regulation  S. The
securities  will  not be  registered  under  the  Securities  Act and may not be
offered  or sold in the  United  States  absent  registration  or an  applicable
exemption  from the  registration  requirements.  This  press  release  does not
constitute an offer to sell or the  solicitation of an offer to buy any security
and shall not constitute an offer, solicitation or sale of any securities in any
jurisdiction in which such offering sold would be unlawful.

     Insight Midwest is a subsidiary of Insight Communications  (NASDAQ:  ICCI),
the 8th largest cable operator in the United States,  serving  approximately 1.4
million  customers.  The company is highly  concentrated  in the four contiguous
states of Illinois,  Kentucky,  Indiana and Ohio.  Named "2001 Cable Operator of
the Year" by Cablevision  Magazine,  Insight  specializes  in offering  bundled,
state-of-the-art  services  in  mid-sized  communities,  delivering  analog  and
digital video,  high-speed data and the recent  deployment of voice telephony in
selected markets to its customers.


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Any  statements  in this  press  release  that  are  not  historical  facts  are
forward-looking  statements  within the meaning of Section 21E of the Securities
Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. The words "estimate,"  "expect,"  "anticipate"
and  other   expressions   that  indicate  future  events  and  trends  identify
forward-looking  statements.  The above forward-looking estimates are subject to
risks and  uncertainties  and are  subject  to change  based  upon a variety  of
factors that could cause actual results to differ  materially from those Insight
Communications  anticipates.  Factors  that could have a  material  and  adverse
impact on actual results are described in Insight  Communications' annual report
on Form 10-K for the year ended  December 31, 2001 and quarterly  report on Form
10-Q  for  the  nine  months  ended  September  30,  2002.  All  forward-looking
statements in this press  release are  qualified by reference to the  cautionary
statements included in Insight Communications' Form 10-K and Form 10-Q.