He worked at CBC Radio under the management of public affairs director Margaret Lyons (born Keiko Margaret Inouye in Mission, B.C. on 21 November 1923, married Ed Lyons, they had 2 children and she died in Toronto on 5 October 2019). She discovered, nurtured or gave bigger jobs to luminaries of Canadian broadcasting¸apart from Starowicz: Barbara Frum; Stuart McLean; Peter Gzowski; Michael Enright and Ivan Fecan.