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Judge blocks CBS board changes in Redstone drama

NEW YORK - In a day of high drama even for the media industry's most combative family, Shari Redstone spent Wednesday furiously trying to outmaneuver CBS in a boardroom brawl for control of one of America's most storied media companies.

The Redstone family risks losing control of CBS, which has been part of its media empire for nearly two decades and includes America's most watched network. CBS board members, after months of behind-the-scenes tension, earlier this week began taking steps to strip the company's controlling shareholders - the Redstone family - of its power.

CBS' independent board members maintain that Shari Redstone - the daughter of the pugnacious billionaire Sumner Redstone - has been undermining the broadcast company by attempting to exert her will over the company, even if her decisions

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