While working in London, Ontario, he met Jackie Barnes, the station's music librarian, marrying in 1958.
[2] He was offered work in the United States when the president of Metromedia's Cleveland station was driving through Toronto and heard Walters DJing on CKEY.
[4] Walters was considered for hosting The Newlywed Game but the couple decided to move back to southern Ontario to be close to family.
Some of the most entertaining moments came during the time spent dialing and waiting for numbers to connect, as he engaged in informal banter with offscreen crew and organist Pat Ludwig.
In 2010, Walters published a memoir about his mother titled A Very Capable Life: The Autobiography of Zarah Petri, which won the 2010 Edna Staebler Award for creative non-fiction.