As I went to college, I went into radio and television. Now I suppose most people think that's one step ahead of basket weaving as a major in college, but it was part of the journalism department.

After a year he resigned and moved to New York City to look for a job in broadcast news. Pest control
Only a year later Donaldson was embroiled in another Federal aid scandal. He covered the two major party political conventions in 1968 and in 1969 began anchoring the network's 11:00 pm Saturday and Sunday newscasts.

Samuel Andrew "Sam" Donaldson Jr. (born March 11 1934) is an American reporter and news anchor serving with ABC News from 1967 to the present.