Max Keeping
| Max Keeping | |
|---|---|
| Born |
Winston Maxwell Keeping 1 April 1942 Grand Bank, Newfoundland |
| Died | 1 October 2015 (aged 73) Ottawa, Ontario |
| Occupation | Newscaster |
| Years active | 1950s–2010 |
| Awards |
Order of Canada (1991) Gemini Humanitarian Award (2003) Order of Ontario (2007) |
Winston Maxwell "Max" Keeping, CM OOnt (1 April 1942 – 1 October 2015), was a Canadian broadcaster. He was vice-president of news and public affairs at CJOH-DT, the CTV station in Ottawa, Ontario. Keeping was anchor of the local evening news broadcast from 1972 until his retirement in 2010 and was the station's community ambassador until March 2012.
Keeping was born in Grand Bank, Newfoundland and began his news career in the late 1950s. His early work was as sports director of the St. John's Evening Telegram, a post that he occupied at the age of 16. He then worked with the radio station VOCM and CJCH in Halifax.
Keeping moved to Ottawa in 1965, when he became a parliamentary reporter first for CFRA radio, and then as a parliamentary reporter for CTV News.
Keeping returned to Newfoundland in the fall of 1972 to run as a Progressive Conservative in the October federal election, in the riding of Burin—Burgeo. He came in second place behind the Liberal incumbent, Don Jamieson, with 25% of the vote.
After the election he returned to Ottawa. Due to his political campaign, he was unable to return to his parliamentary bureau job at CTV. In November 1972, he joined CJOH as the local news director and was the station's news anchor from November 1972 until March 2010, making him one of the longest-serving Canadian television news anchors.
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