Mike began his amazing career spanning almost 47 years as a cameraman with ABC Television in early 1960s.

Mike's camera captured everything, including: the Baseball Game of the Week, the Harlem Globetrotters, Indy 500s, Kentucky Derbys, NBA basketball, the Special Olympics, and Sugar Bowls; the Mohammed Ali vs. Brian London fight in England in 1966, along with Howard Cosell's interview with legendary football player Jim Brown; the Winter Olympics in France in 1968; the Texas vs. Arkansas "Game of the Century" in 1969; Mohammed Ali vs. Joe Frazier in "The Fight of the Century" at Madison Square Garden in 1971; and "The Battle of the Sexes" between Billy Jean King and Bobby Riggs at the Superdome in Houston in 1973.

Until 1977, Mike worked as a cameraman at ABC Television with ABC's Wide World of Sports and ABC Sports. In 1977, Mike moved to the ABC News Division with President of ABC Sports Roone Arledge Jr.

At ABC, he worked with one of American television's most prominent journalists, Peter Jennings, on daily international news, ABC specials, and documentaries. In this role, Mike traveled the world even more broadly, covering events that helped shape history, from natural disasters, to war and politics, to coups and uprisings, all while reporting sidebar sports stories.

Mike won an Emmy from the Television Academy for Outstanding Individual Achievement in Sports Programming (Electronic Cameraman) with ABC for his coverage of the 1976 Olympic Games.

His coverage at the Summer Olympics in Montreal, encompassed his filming Bruce Jenner circling the track with the American flag draped around his shoulders after winning the decathlon gold medal.