But the misconduct accusations come as the two are in heated legal battle over the future of CBS, a company with a $20.7 billion market cap. Redstone, who oversees the privately held National Amusements Inc. that is a majority shareholder of both CBS and sister company Viacom, has urged the two companies to re-merge after splitting off from each other in 2005 in a wave of de-consolidation. Since wresting control of Viacom away from former CEO Philippe Dauman back in 2016, Redstone has been pressing for a re-combination of her family's two media giants that anticipated a recent mega-merger boom in the media space with AT&T-Time Warner and Disney-21st Century Fox. The major obstacle, however, has been Moonves. Earlier this year it looked as if Moonves might play ball. He and CBS extended an offer to buy out Viacom, albeit below the company's market value.