COMCAST CORPORATION
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Kelley L. Claypool, Senior Analyst - Investor Relations
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              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.