Martha Stewart Living
{{short description|Magazine and former television program}}
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{{Infobox magazine
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| editor = Elizabeth Graves
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| frequency = Monthly
| total_circulation = 9,000,000+{{Cite web|url=http://www.meredith.com/brand/marthastewartliving|title = Martha Stewart Living | Meredith}}
| category = Women's magazine
| company = Dotdash Meredith
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| founded = 1990
| finaldate = May 2022 (print)
| country = United States
| based = Des Moines, Iowa
| language = English
| website = {{URL|http://marthastewart.com}}
| issn = 1057-5251
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Martha Stewart Living is a magazine and television program featuring entertaining and lifestyle expert Martha Stewart. 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,{{Cite web|url=https://www.librarything.com/nseries/33222/Martha-Stewart-Living-Magazine|title=Martha Stewart Living Magazine|work=LibraryThing|access-date=November 2, 2024}}{{cite web|title=What to know when collecting Martha Stewart Living Mags|url=http://www.ebay.com/gds/What-to-know-when-collecting-Martha-Stewart-Living-Mags-/10000000002028402/g.html|work=eBay|access-date=30 July 2015|date=6 October 2006}}{{cite web|title=Top 100 U.S. Magazines by Circulation|url=http://www.psaresearch.com/images/TOPMAGAZINES.pdf|work=PSA Research Center|access-date=6 February 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161115225953/http://www.psaresearch.com/images/TOPMAGAZINES.pdf|archive-date=15 November 2016|url-status=dead}} published by Time Inc. The magazine was published monthly from mid-1994. Stewart took the magazine with her when she bought out her contract with 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.{{Cite web|url=https://wwd.com/business-news/media/meredith-editorial-and-operational-control-of-martha-stewart-living-and-weddings-10302156/|title=Meredith Assumes Editorial and Operational Control of Martha Stewart Living and Weddings|last=Steigrad|first=Alexandra|date=December 22, 2015|website=WWD|language=en|access-date=August 19, 2019}}
Martha Stewart Living magazine featured 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 was the Founder and Chief Creative Officer of the magazine. The magazine's editorial staff was led by editor-in-chief, Elizabeth Graves, and included 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.[https://www.adr.com/Markets/GlobalNewsStory?docID=1-ON20120502000645-5TQ91AKGLOI76Q9RTEVGLFIG5I J.P. Morgan's adr.com|Markets|Global News Story] {{webarchive|url=https://archive.today/20121217121428/https://www.adr.com/Markets/GlobalNewsStory?docID=1-ON20120502000645-5TQ91AKGLOI76Q9RTEVGLFIG5I |date=December 17, 2012}}. Adr.com. Retrieved August 18, 2013.
The magazine discontinued its print edition and went online only in May 2022.{{Cite web |last=Jett |first=Tyler |title=Martha Stewart Living to end print edition as Dotdash Meredith continues shift to digital |url=https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/money/business/2022/04/14/dotdash-meredith-shifts-martha-stewart-living-magazine-digital-only/7319101001/ |access-date=2024-11-22 |website=The Des Moines Register |language=en-US}}
Television program
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| genre = Lifestyle
| presenter = Martha Stewart
| country = United States
| language = English
| runtime = 30 minutes (weekends 1993-2004, weekdays 1997-1999)
60 minutes (weekdays 1999-2004)
| network = First-run syndication
Discovery Channel
| first_aired = {{Start date|1993|9}}
| last_aired = {{End date|2004|9}}
| related = The Martha Stewart Show
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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 to 1995, Eyemark Entertainment with Discovery Channel from 1995 to 2000 following the CBS-Westinghouse merger, then King World Productions from 2000 to 2004 following CBS' merger with King World. It was succeeded by The Martha Stewart Show after Stewart's release from prison in 2005 and ran until it was cancelled in 2012.{{Cite web|url=https://tvseriesfinale.com/tv-show/the-martha-stewart-show-cancelled-season-seven-21731/|title=Martha Stewart Show cancelled, no season eight|date=January 5, 2012|website=canceled TV shows - TV Series Finale|language=en-US|access-date=August 19, 2019}}{{better source needed|date=October 2018}}
Accolades
Both the magazine and the television show won numerous awards.{{cite web |title=Martha Stewart Living (TV Series 1996–2004) Poster Martha Stewart Living (1996–2004) |url=https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0185087/awards/?ref_=tt_awd |website=imdb.com |publisher=IMDb, Inc. |access-date=13 June 2022}}{{cite web |title=Shades of Stewart |url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/lifestyles/chi-martha-gallery-photogallery.html |website=chicagotribune.com |publisher=Chicago Tribune |access-date=13 June 2022}}
References
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External links
- [http://marthastewart.com Magazine Official Site]
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20070921015442/http://www.marthastewart.com/tv Television Program Official Site]
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Category:1993 American television series debuts
Category:2005 American television series endings
Category:First-run syndicated television programs in the United States
Category:Lifestyle magazines published in the United States
Category:Magazines established in 1990
Category:Magazines published in Iowa
Category:Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia
Category:Mass media in Des Moines, Iowa
Category:Monthly magazines published in the United States
Category:Quarterly magazines published in the United States
Category:Television series by CBS Studios
Category:Westinghouse Broadcasting