The Peak: Production
The Peak is produced by The Peak News, LLC, an independent news organization based in Colorado Springs, Colorado.
Who: Media professionals working with volunteer citizen journalists and interns, and interview guests from across every segment of our community, partnered with the entire staff of Salem Media Group – Colorado Springs, all committed to bring our audience a diverse daily view of the Pikes Peak region.
What: The Peak is a lively mix of news, commentary, interviews, feature reports, and more, disseminated as a radio broadcast on AM 1460/FM 101.1 The Answer, a video livestream, and audio and video podcasts across a variety of distribution platforms. Host Chaim Goldman brings continuity to the diversity, while a regular cast of characters — who are certainly becoming local personalities in their own right — share stories of every kind that both represent our local community in a fair and balanced way, and cast a vision for our better future.
Each day of the week we have a recurring theme, which has become popular in podcast form to different segments of our listening audience. Our weekly themes are: Monday: Business and Culture, Tuesday: Government and Politics, Wednesday: Family and Religion, and Thursday: Media and Education.
Although primarily a radio show, The Peak is also video livestreamed on Facebook and YouTube and recorded for distribution over a gamut of video platforms, both in whole and in parts. A major format for The Peak’s distribution is via individual reports/segments, available on demand as video and audio podcasts. These are becoming favorites of our watchers/listeners, as they tune in specifically to check out reports on the topics that are most important to them.
When and Where: The Peak is broadcast Monday – Thursday in early drivetime on Salem Media’s KZNT AM 1460/FM 101.1 The Answer. The 3 – 4pm time slot follows America First with Sebastian Gorka, and preceding Larry Elder’s popular three-hour broadcast. The Answer is officially branded as a “Conservative Talk” radio station, and Salem’s national hosts are well-known for voicing bold, intelligent, and innovative opinions and covering topics the rest simply won’t touch. We do the same locally.
A new episode, including both live and prerecorded elements, is aired Monday through Thursday. AM 1460 has a daytime broadcast coverage area spanning from South Denver to Pueblo, across the Front Range, and into the Rockies, with the potential reach of 1.9 to 2 million residents, and well as to the 20+ million who visit the Pikes Pear region each year. (please refer to the broadcast coverage map)
How: The Peak’s news team staff consists of the executive team of: Chaim Goldman (Executive Producer and Host), Rachel Stovall (Broadcast Coordinator/News Advisor/On-Air Host), Zach Goldman (Operations Manager and Citizen Journalist/Intern Coordinator), Jordan Baldwin (Investigative News Director), James Fiddler (Production Coordinator and On-Air Engineer), Jim Miller (“Just a Guy” and VP of Rants), and a volunteer team of citizen journalists, co-hosts, interns, and interview guests will fill out the ranks.
The Peak is masterfully supported by the entire staff of the Colorado Springs office of Salem Media Group. Salem has been in the radio business 50 years, is publicly traded, and owns and operates more than 100 radio stations across the U.S., including three in the Springs, and distributes their content to more than 3200 affiliates. Salem knows how to professionally produce and distribute quality News-Talk content, and we’re honored to be partnering with them for The Peak.
Please Note: The Peak News is not owned nor operated by Salem Media Group, Inc./Bison Media, Inc., nor is Salem Media responsible for any of the program’s content.