I understand what you are saying and you are probably right, but I don't want to go through life thinking everyone is a lying ahole. She doesn't have any motive to make it up and it makes little consequence if she is right or wrong anyway.
Of course, she may have only 1/2 the story. Maybe it is more like "the show is canceled if they don't regain their ratings strength".... I dunno, I'm hearing it 3rd hand.