UNITED STATES
                       SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
                              WASHINGTON, DC 20549


                                    FORM 8-K


                                 CURRENT REPORT

                     Pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d) of the
                         Securities Exchange Act of 1934



         Date of Report (Date of earliest event reported): JULY 21, 2005



                      INSIGHT COMMUNICATIONS COMPANY, INC.
             (Exact name of Registrant as specified in its charter)


        DELAWARE                      0-26677                  13-4053502
(State of incorporation)       (Commission File No.)          (IRS Employer
                                                             Identification No.)

                                 810 7TH AVENUE
                            NEW YORK, NEW YORK 10019
                    (Address of principal executive offices)


                  Registrant's telephone number: (917) 286-2300


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ITEM 1.01. ENTRY INTO A MATERIAL DEFINITIVE CONTRACT.

     Insight Communications  Company, Inc. (the "Registrant")  indirectly owns a
50% interest in Insight Midwest,  L.P.  ("Insight  Midwest"),  which through its
operating  subsidiaries  owns and operates  cable  television  systems.  Insight
Midwest Holdings, LLC ("Midwest Holdings"), a wholly owned subsidiary of Insight
Midwest,  holds  all  of  the  outstanding  equity  of  each  of  the  operating
subsidiaries  and serves as borrower under a $1.975 billion credit facility (the
"Midwest Holdings Credit Facility").

     As of July 21,  2005,  the Midwest  Holdings  Credit  Facility was amended,
among other  things,  (i) to  refinance  the  existing  $1.1 billion Term B loan
facility by reducing the applicable  margins for LIBOR rate  borrowings and (ii)
to adjust the maximum total leverage ratio covenant.






                                   SIGNATURES

     Pursuant to the  requirements  of the Securities  Exchange Act of 1934, the
Registrant  has duly  caused  this  report  to be  signed  on its  behalf by the
undersigned hereunto duly authorized.

                                       INSIGHT COMMUNICATIONS COMPANY, INC.



Dated: July 27, 2005                   By: /s/ Elliot Brecher
                                           --------------------------------
                                            ELLIOT BRECHER
                                            Senior Vice President
                                               and General Counsel