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That article did basically no research into how ratings work. Let's look at a few issues. "Checkmate" was pre-empted until 10:30 PM EST in Chicago. "Upgrade" was pre-empted in New York until Saturday. In the case of "Upgrade" only 86% of the affilates aired the showed, compared to the normal 95%. This week will ALSO be pre-empted until 10:30 PM EST in Chicago as well.

That alone will kill the ratings, because of how the Nieslen system is set-up in terms of "counting" viewers. Why is this important? The show was coming back from a month hiatus, and then suddenly it was pre-empted in some areas...during SPRING. It's concievable that some viewers didn't know it was back. Look across the board on all the networks, shows are dropping like crazy right now. It seems stupid, but spring time really does lead to people not turning on the TV at night, because they can stay out later.

The CW has also been facing a decline in affilate coverage, as shown by Upgrade only being shown in 86% of the possible 95% affilates. Sadly, the CW's entire weekly line-up is not making money for the affilates to justify carrying the channel. So it is being dropped like crazy. Two years ago, the CW had an affilate coverage in 98% of the markets on EVERY night. Now it is down to 96% during the Monday-Thursday slots, and 95% on Friday nights. This means less coverage, and less viewers.

Lack of promotion can also be added in as an issue. How many times do we see Gossip Girl promos shown 20 times a week, and Smallville gets maybe...5? I think the issue is that the CW knows Smallville has a cult like following that they can depend on, so they don't care to try and bring in new viewers. They need to rescue the rest of their week day shows instead. Whether that is fair or not to Smallville fans is open for debate.

So is the storyline. Yes folks, writing plays a part as well. We can debate that until we are blue in the face, but I can tell you that the show is suffering from a lack of viewers due to the issues listed above more then possibly how the show is written.

Want a ray of sunshine in the gloom? Every show on the CW is down. The Vampire Diaries, Smallville's Thursday night replacement, is struggling to keep above 3 million viewers every week. Supernatural is down, Gossip Girl, Melrose Place, and One Tree Hill are tanking. Fly Girls and High Society can't even get above 1 million viewers. Smallville is not at risk of being cancelled mid-season unless it drops to 1.5 million and below CONSISTENTLY. Until then, it is still the 3rd-4th highest ranking show on the channel, behind America's Next Top Model, Vampire Diaries, and Supernatural.

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