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Rihanna criticizes CBS for dropping song from broadcast

2014-09-16 27 Dailymotion

Rihanna took to Twitter to lash out at network CBS for excluding her song "Run This Town" from the show's "Thursday Night Football" program last week - amid the NFL being at the center of a domestic violence scandal.

The singer - who was assaulted by ex-boyfriend Chris Brown in 2009 - tweeted to her 37 million followers: "CBS you pulled my song last week, now you wanna slide it back in this Thursday...Y'all are sad for penalizing me for this."

Following the tweet, CBS released a statement saying that they were "moving in a different direction" and using original music for their NFL programs.

To make matters even blurrier, Roc Nation released a statement saying that CBS was never authorized to use Rihanna's version of "Run This Town" in the first place.