Exhibit 99.1

                                                             COMCAST CORPORATION

NEWS RELEASE


Contact:
Ken Mikalauskas, Vice President - Finance
(215) 981-7541

Kelley L. Claypool, Senior Analyst - Investor Relations
(215) 655-8016 


             COMCAST COMPLETES ACQUISITION OF CONTROLLING INTEREST
                           IN JONES INTERCABLE, INC.

April 7, 1999

Philadelphia, PA--Comcast Corporation announced today that it has completed the 
acquisition of a controlling interest in Jones Intercable, Inc. The Company now
owns approximately 12.8 million shares of Class A Common Stock and approximately
2.9 million shares of Common Stock of Jones Intercable, representing 
approximately 37% of the economic and 47% of the voting interest in Jones 
Intercable. The Company has contributed these shares to its wholly-owned 
subsidiary, Comcast Cable Communications, Inc. ("Comcast Cable"). The 
approximately 2.9 million shares of Common Stock represents approximately 57% of
the outstanding Common Stock, which class of stock elects 75% of the Board of 
Directors of Jones Intercable. As a result, Jones Intercable will now be a 
consolidated public company subsidiary of Comcast Cable.

Investor Relations inquiries for Jones Intercable should now be directed to the 
contacts at Comcast listed above.

Comcast Corporation (www.comcast.com) is principally engaged in the development,
management and operation of broadband cable networks and in the provision of 
content through principal ownership of QVC, Comcast-Spectacor and Comcast 
SportsNet, a controlling interest in E! Entertainment Television and through 
other programming investments.

Comcast's Class A Special and Class A Common Stock are traded on The Nasdaq 
Stock Market under the symbols CMCSK and CMCSA, respectively.

Jones Intercable (www.jic.com) owns or manages cable operations serving more 
than 1.0 million customers. Jones Intercable's Class A Common Stock and Common 
Stock are traded on The Nasdaq Stock Market under the symbols JOINA and JOIN, 
respectively.