After the first year of production, CNN producer David Sager joined the program, eventually taking over after the departure of Ciavatta.
The series won a News & Documentary Emmy Award in 1992 when the Program turned the Camera around and focused on the life and career of Tom Cassidy as he was dying of Aids.
The Emmy Award was accepted and shared by Executive Producer David Sager and his team, for Schuch's Pinnacle: Special Edition tribute to Tom Cassidy.
For the next 12 years, with Schuch anchoring, the show received high ratings and won numerous awards for news reporting, going beyond business to film finely-crafted cinematic biographical profiles of the world's most fascinating and successful people.
By the show's 400th episode, the Pinnacle team had filmed 15 years of in-depth profiles of virtually every powerful, successful CEO in America and beyond, as well as leaders in the arts, science and culture.