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After a dust-up last week, Rihanna says she doesn’t want her performance of the song “Run This Town” to air on “Thursday Night Football” this week.
CBS is saying “fine” — if you don’t want the airtime, we won’t give it.
“Beginning this Thursday, we will be moving in a different direction with some elements of our ‘Thursday Night Football’ open,” CBS said in a statement.
“Run This Town” will be replaced by theme music — apparently for the rest of the season, not just for this week.
The network’s decision was announced Tuesday morning, a few hours after Rihanna criticized the network on Twitter.
“CBS you pulled my song last week, now you wanna slide it back in this Thursday? NO,” she wrote, followed by an expletive.