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Megyn Kelly: Will she replace Sean Hannity at 9 p.m.?

Megyn Kelly will reportedly move to the 9 p.m. spot on Fox News. But if Megyn Kelly moves, where does that leave Sean Hannity and Greta Van Susteren?

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Fox News anchor Megyn Kelly at the Fox studios in New York in 2012. Fox News says that Megyn Kelly, its popular daytime TV host, will move into the network’s prime-time lineup when she returns from maternity leave.
  • By Sara Morrison The Wrap/Reuters

Megyn Kelly is set to start her primetime Fox News era at 9 p.m., according to the Drudge Report.

Fox News told TheWrap: "We will neither confirm nor deny any programming schedule changes. As previously stated, the network has signed long-term deals with Megyn Kelly, Bret Baier, Shepard Smith, Bill O'Reilly, Sean Hannity and Greta Van Susteren."

The channel announced in July that Kelly, who is currently on maternity leave, would be moved to somewhere in primetime in September. On July 26, she announced that her third child was a boy, and his name was Thatcher Bray. Her husband is Douglas Brunt.

Many thought Kelly'd bump Greta Van Susteren off the schedule, as her show is the lowest-rated of Fox News' primetime offerings, but Van Susteren insisted that she wasn't going anywhere.

She may have been right; Sean Hannity is currently in the 9 p.m. slot, though if Kelly took that over, it's just as likely that he'd be moved to 10 p.m. and Van Susteren would still go. All three of Fox News' primetime personalities claim they have long-term primetime contracts with Fox News. But someone's got to go.

If Kelly ends up at 9 p.m., she'll be competing against Piers Morgan on CNN, Rachel Maddow on MSNBC, and Dr. Drew on HLN.

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