Responding to a request from Free Press and other groups, the Media Bureau has pushed back the deadline for comments and reply comments from interested parties.

Acting on requests from ION Media Networks and Free Press, the FCC has pushed back the deadline for comments and reply comments on proposed changes to rules regulating the ownership of media.

The new deadlines for comments and reply comments are July 8 and July 21, respectively.

Reply comments on the issues remanded by the Third Circuit appellate court in the Prometheus case are now due in mid January.

The agency has set Dec. 26, 2012, as the deadline for comments and Jan. 4, 2013, for reply comments.

Due to the importance of the issues under consideration, the FCC said this week it would push back the deadline for comments and reply comments in the proceeding.

The bureau extended the deadline for reply comments till Jan. 17 following a request from the NAB.

The FCC extended the comment deadlines for public comments on its media ownership rules.