Sean Hannity to take over Tucker Carlson's time slot, with Greg Gutfeld and Jesse Watters also added to primetime. Fox News has denied the rumors.
Drudge Reports Major Shakeup At Fox News
Credit: Drudge Report
May 18, 2023

A flurry of denials from Fox after Matt Drudge dropped this latest bombshell from the soap opera that is Fox News.

Source: The Wrap

Sean Hannity opened his Wednesday midday radio show casually talking about Joe Biden’s handling of the debt-default crisis happening in Congress – but did not address a Drudge Report headline saying he was soon to move to Tucker Carlson’s old 8 p.m. ET slot as part of a major primetime shakeup at Fox News.

Drudge posted a banner headline on Wednesday claiming the exclusive, saying that “Hannity” would move to 8 p.m., and that Greg Gutfeld and Jesse Waters would be moving to join him in primetime. There was no attribution or additional information, however, and the headline linked to a Mediate write-up of the Drudge headline.

Fox strongly denied that any programming decisions had been made in the wake of Carlson’s ouster: “No decision has been made on a new primetime line-up and there are multiple scenarios under consideration,” Fox News said in a statement Wednesday.

Also brought up the question of Laura Ingraham as presumably she'd be moving out of primetime, with some speculating that she'd be leaving Fox, a rumor that Fox flatly denied. “Reports based on various tweets by left wing activists are wildly inaccurate – Laura Ingraham, the top-rated woman in cable news, is now and will continue to be a prominent host and integral part of the Fox News lineup."

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