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CBS: Rihanna out of NFL "Thursday Night Football" telecast

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CBS and Rihanna are splitting up after more fallout from the Ray Rice domestic abuse scandal.

The network said Tuesday it was permanently editing a song featuring Rihanna's voice out of its Thursday night NFL telecasts -- after the singer issued a profane tweet about it.

A portion of Jay Z's "Run This Town" featuring Rihanna was cut from last Thursday's game because CBS was covering the controversy over Rice's assault of his then-fiancee. CBS planned to use the song Thursday and for the rest of the season, but Rihanna objected to that in a tweet sent to her 37 million followers.

"CBS you pulled my song last week, now you wanna slide it back in this Thursday? NO, F*** you! Y'all are sad for penalizing me for this," she wrote.

She followed that up with another message:

CBS issued a statement saying that it was "moving in a different direction" with different theme music.

First published on September 16, 2014 / 12:02 PM EDT

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