Rice Prompts Changes To 'Thursday Night Football'

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- The chairman of CBS Sports says the network is revising its "Thursday Night Football" broadcast because of controversy that arose connected with the Ray Rice video.

Sean McManus said the changes include eliminating a segment with the Rihanna song, "Run This Town." Rice was released by the Baltimore Ravens this week after a video showing him knocking his future wife unconscious was aired on TMZ and elsewhere.

The network wanted to give the game coverage a more "subdued" tone and journalistic approach, McManus said.

Rihanna's own history of violence involving Chris Brown was one of several factors involved in cutting the song element but not the overriding factor, McManus said.

CBS begins its prime-time Thursday broadcasts with the Pittsburgh Steelers at the Baltimore Ravens.