Jones turned to Gary McNamara, a conservative talk radio host, to fill Kelley's seat.

Seven clear-channel stations - WBAP, WJR in Detroit; KXL in Portland, Oregon; KXEL in Waterloo, Iowa; WLS in Chicago; KBOI in Boise; and KOKC in Oklahoma City, as well as regional station WMAL in Washington, D.C. - front the network, which claims to reach all 48 contiguous states plus Hawaii.

With the change, the Midnight Radio Network joined former host Bill Mack along with Dale Sommers and Dave Nemo on the channel.

The name Red Eye Radio came from Cumulus Media Networks' existing overnight talk show, which at the time of Cumulus's acquisition of Citadel Broadcasting was hosted by Doug McIntyre (who originated the name and had previously used it on a local Los Angeles-based show prior to changing time slots) on weeknights and Marc Germain on weekends.

Upon Cumulus' acquisition of Citadel (and, by extension, WBAP and the rest of the former ABC Radio assets), Cumulus also reassumed syndication of Harley and McNamara, reassigned McIntyre to a local show in Los Angeles, and rebranded Harley's and McNamara's show under the Red Eye Radio name.

As a result of the reorganization, the show also gained several major market affiliates, including New York City and Los Angeles, where Red Eye Radio had established itself, and refocused the program as a competitor to Premiere Networks's ubiquitous Coast to Coast AM, eventually moving towards a generic conservative talk direction, though trucking news and content remains a major part of the show.

Among the criticisms given to this program is its time slot and lack of daytime reruns, the time of which the hosts speak on the program (Gary McNamara is estimated to speak two-thirds of the show’s dialogue on an average broadcast night), and more recently, the lack of discussion about information relevant to truckers, which is essentially non-existent currently.