Internet News for Martha Stewart

Marth Stewart (born August 3, 1941) is a television and magazine personality known for her cooking, gardening, etiquette, and arts and crafts projects, and as a general lifestyle guide and homemaker. She is also a successful businesswoman and an American icon.

On March 8, 2004, Viacom pulled Martha Stewart Living from its CBS and UPN affiliates, after having moved the show during Stewart's trial from prime daytime timeslots into less desirable early-morning slots (e.g., 2:05am in New York). [2] On March 15, Stewart resigned from the board of Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia.

On May 18, MSO announced that the television show that had started the company, Martha Stewart Living, was going into hiatus, with no announced date of return.

On July 8, a motion for a new trial was denied, and sentencing was set for July 16. Martha Stewart and Peter Bacanovic were each sentenced to five months in prison, five months of home confinement, and two years probation, for lying about a stock sale, conspiracy and obstruction of justice. Stewart was ordered to pay a $30,000 fine, while Bacanovic was fined $4,000.

The judge stayed the sentence while they prepared their appeals.

Stewart is once again involved in her Martha Stewart Living family of magazines. Offerings of her products at Kmart have been expanded and it is likely that Stewart's merchandise will also be available at Sears stores following that company's merger with Kmart. However, the most heavily promoted aspect of her attempt at a comeback is television.

She is again the host of a daytime show simply called Martha and appears in a new version of The Apprentice (called The Apprentice: Martha Stewart). Both shows premiered in September 2005 and both are produced by famed producer Mark Burnett.

Her prime time Apprentice spin-off has reportedly been sluggish in the ratings, which some attribute to popular dislike for the opportunistic tone of the network's massive promotional campaign and NBC's slotting the show up against the hit drama Lost.

She was born in Jersey City, New Jersey, to Polish-American parents Edward Kostyra who worked as an editor for Transcription Broadcast Systems and Martha Ruszowski who was a homemaker, but grew up in Nutley, New Jersey, with five brothers and sisters. She was christened Martha Helen Kostyra, and later took the name Grace at confirmation.

In October 2005, Stewart released a new book called The Martha Rules that tells ten secrets to start and manage a new business.

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