''Martha Stewart Living'' is a
magazine
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and former
television program
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featuring entertaining and lifestyle expert
Martha Stewart
Martha Helen Stewart (, ; born August 3, 1941) is an American retail businesswoman, writer, and television personality. As founder of Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia, she gained success through a variety of business ventures, encompassing pu ...
. Both the magazine and the television program focus on lifestyle content and the domestic arts.
Magazine
''Martha Stewart Living'' began as a quarterly magazine in 1990,
published by
Time Inc.
Time Inc. was an American worldwide mass media corporation founded on November 28, 1922, by Henry Luce and Briton Hadden and based in New York City. It owned and published over 100 magazine brands, including its namesake ''Time'', ''Sports Illu ...
The magazine has been published monthly since mid-1994.
[ Stewart took the magazine with her when she left Time Inc. in 1997, and ''Martha Stewart Living'' became the flagship brand of the Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia media empire. In 2015, Meredith Corporation assumed editorial and operational control of ''Martha Stewart Living'' and ''Martha Stewart Weddings''.
''Martha Stewart Living'' magazine features lifestyle content around food, home decorating, entertaining, crafts/DIY, travel, and tastemakers, with monthly columns including "From Martha", "Good Things", "Good Living", and "Everyday Food". Martha Stewart is the Founder and Chief Creative Officer of the magazine. The magazine's editorial staff is led by editor-in-chief, Elizabeth Graves, and includes a staff of industry-recognized editors including Sarah Carey, Editorial Director of Food & Entertaining, Melissa Milrad Goldstein, Beauty Director, and Melissa Ozawa, Features & Garden Editor.
During the period 2005–2013, ''Martha Stewart Living'' made a profit only in 2007.
]
Television program
The ''Martha Stewart Living'' television show debuted as a weekly half-hour syndicated program in September 1993. Intended to complement the magazine, the program featured Stewart as host of each episode where she presented segments on things such as cooking, gardening, craft making and decorating. It expanded to weekdays in 1997, became a full hour-long program in 1999 (with a 30-minute weekend edition) and went on hiatus in autumn of 2004 following Stewart's stock trading case and conviction.
The show was distributed by Group W Productions from 1993–1995, Eyemark Entertainment
The Westinghouse Broadcasting Company, also known as Group W, was the broadcasting division of Westinghouse Electric Corporation. It owned several radio and television stations across the United States and distributed television shows for syndicat ...
from 1995–2000 following the CBS-Westinghouse merger, then King World Productions
King World Productions, Inc. (also known as King World Entertainment, King World Enterprises, or simply King World) was a production company and syndicator of television programming in the United States independently established in 1964 until acq ...
from 2000–2004 following CBS' merger with King World. It was succeeded by ''The Martha Stewart Show
''Martha'', also known as ''The Martha Stewart Show'', is an American cooking show hosted by Martha Stewart. The series premiered on September 12, 2005, in syndication until it was picked up by the Hallmark Channel in September 2010 as part of a l ...
'' after Stewart's release from prison in 2005 and ran until it was cancelled in 2012.
Accolades
Both the magazine and the television show have won numerous awards.
References
External links
Magazine Official Site
Television Program Official Site
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