Insight Comms adds a record 30,700 digital subscribers in Q1

NEW YORK — Insight Communications Company today announced financial and operating results for the quarter ended March 31, 2009.

Insight Communications had a digital customer net gain of 30,700, the highest quarterly net gain in digital customers in the company’s history. Total digital customers at quarter end were 470,200, a 68% penetration of the company’s digital universe.

Operating Statistics (in thousands, except penetration data):

                                 Q1       Q4       Q1
                               2009     2008     2008
                            -------  -------  -------
Basic Cable
 Homes Passed               1,314.6  1,312.6  1,299.5
 Basic Cable Customers        723.7    707.6    689.0
 Basic Cable Penetration      55.0%    53.9%    53.0%

Digital Cable
 Digital Universe             689.4    677.2    660.8
 Digital Customers            470.2    439.5    396.9
 Digital Cable Penetration    68.2%    64.9%    60.1%

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