- He defeated Mario Lopez in the final 2, to win the Celebrity Weakest Link (2001).
- Before he had a successful career as an announcer and a game show host, in his early career, and in the same situation as fellow game show host Bob Goen, he once worked for Dick Clark.
- Was a member of The Young Americans.
- Legendary game show host/television personality Dick Clark took him under his wing, when Walberg was 23. The friendship lasted for 27 years, until Clark's own death on April 18, 2012.
- He briefly hosted his own talk show.
- Had auditioned to replace his idol Bob Barker on The Price is Right (1972).
- Graduated from West Florence High School in Florence, South Carolina, in 1980.
- His mentor was the late Dick Clark.
- Credits Dick Clark as his favorite mentor/friend.
- As a game show host/announcer, he was highly influenced by Dick Clark.
- Has highly praised Dick Clark for his stardom as a game show host/announcer.
- Was associated with Stone-Stanley Productions from 1990 to 1994.
- Before he was a successful announcer and a television host, he used to work for Charlie O'Donnell, a lifelong friend of Dick Clark's.
- Before he served as the announcer for Shop 'Til You Drop (1991) opposite newcomer Pat Finn, which was his first on-camera job, Walberg actually auditioned to host the show, but to act as a fill-in contestant.
- On Shop 'Til You Drop (1991), when being asked by Pat Finn for what trip the couple could win, Finn himself would asked Walberg this question: "To Where, Mark?" Walberg had performed it tremendously, for every taping of the show.
- Walberg had left Shop 'Til You Drop (1991) around 1994, right around the same time, he wanted to be released from his contract at Stone-Stanley Productions, to pursue other projects. He was later replaced by Jason Grant Smith, and later, Dee Bradley Baker.
- Met an unfamiliar game show host Pat Finn in 1990, who was not the host of Shop 'Til You Drop (1991), yet, then, when Scott Herriott had been terminated, Finn took over, as the host in Herriott's place and did what his own contract had to do, in order to get the job. They remained friends to this day.
- Shares the same birthday (in the same year) as: Dee Bradley Baker. The most coincidental thing is they both announced Shop 'Til You Drop (1991), on different networks.
- Neighbor of Marc Price. Walberg announced on Teen Win, Lose or Draw (1989) opposite him.
- Compared to future Shop 'Til You Drop (1991) host Pat Finn, amongst fellow game show hosts Bob Goen, Marc Summers and J.D. Roth, Walberg was also an ardent fan of both Bob Barker's and Wink Martindale's, when he was growing up, but it was Dick Clark, that he had an interest in him, the most, before he ever worked for him.
- Graduated from Francis Marion University in Florence, South Carolina.
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