“Red Eye is syndicated by Cumulus while Clear Channel’s Premiere division syndicates Coast to Coast.”
This likely has a lot to do with it. Cumulus stations replacing a show syndicated by rival Clear Channel with one of their own.
Right—Cumulus picking up its own shows, and Clear Channel stations picking up Premiere (the same company as CC) shows. A couple years back Clear Channel’s WXKS 1200 Boston went from
Spanish to conservative talk, and that meant that shows
like Rush, Beck, Hannity, Coast to Coast, and Bill Cunningham
were pulled from WRKO 680 (Entercom) to go to the new station which called itself Rush Radio for a time.
Cumulus owns nothing in Boston but as mentioned above they own WPRO 630 in Providence, and Clear Channel wound up with
Coast to Coast on their own WHJJ 920 while WPRO picks up
Red Eye from their own corporate parent.