BUSINESS
December 8, 2011 | By Tiffany Hsu, Los Angeles Times
Martha Stewart is headed for J.C. Penney. The company started by the lifestyle maven has made a 10-year deal with J.C. Penney Co. that will bring her products to the department store chain beginning in February 2013. Penney spent $38.5 million, or $3.50 a share, buying a 16.6% share in Stewart's Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia Inc., according to a news release put out by the two companies. Penney will also have a presence on Martha Stewart Living's board. The Stewart products will be showcased in distinct retail spaces in the stores, the companies said.
ENTERTAINMENT
December 5, 2010 | By Melissa Maerz, Los Angeles Times
This is not an easy day for Martha Stewart. Sitting in her Manhattan office, surrounded by sparkling walls of ribbons, puff-paints, glitters and decorative hole punches, all carefully arranged by color and size, she has a very serious look on her face, which has been freshly repowdered after a midday yoga session. FOR THE RECORD: Martha Stewart: A Dec. 5 Calendar article about Martha Stewart reported that her jail time cost her company $1 billion. That figure is not an annual financial loss for the publicly traded Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia Inc. but an estimate from Stewart based on possible damage to her brand name and loss of future business deals.
BUSINESS
October 11, 2010 | By Meg James, Los Angeles Times
Hallmark Channels, reeling over the lackluster ratings of its recently launched Martha Stewart programming block, forced out a key executive who had been hired just four months ago to work closely with the lifestyle maven. Laura Sillars, a former HGTV programming executive, joined Hallmark in June as senior vice president for lifestyle programming. On Friday, her tenure with the Studio City company ended abruptly. "We mutually decided to go in different ways," said Bill Abbott, chief executive of Hallmark Channels.
BUSINESS
September 7, 2010 | By Meg James, Los Angeles Times
Martha Stewart has a knack for transforming dated rooms into design showpieces. Now she's undertaking another major renovation: the Hallmark Channel. Beginning Monday, Stewart will provide eight hours of programming each weekday as part of an ambitious revamp of the Hallmark Channel. After pinning its fortunes on the broad appeal of sentimental made-for-TV movies and reruns of such classic shows as "The Golden Girls" and "Little House on the Prairie," Hallmark plans to focus on home and lifestyle improvement and cooking shows.
ENTERTAINMENT
June 15, 2010 | By Matea Gold, Los Angeles Times
— It's a reality show that sounds tailor-made for a buzzy cable network like Bravo: A hip gay couple from Manhattan tries to make a go at organic farming in upstate New York. But "The Fabulous Beekman Boys" is premiering Wednesday on Planet Green, a young eco-channel seeking to rev up its reputation with a prime-time schedule built more around high-drama characters than how-to environmentalism. With a new slate that includes programs about chefs, a fashion designer and a boutique owner, the channel's theme of sustainability is being stretched to include not only global warming and recycling, but also selling vintage clothes.
ENTERTAINMENT
May 5, 2010
The Early Show Tom Selleck ; Bobby Flay; Corinne Bailey Rae performs. (N) 7 a.m. KCBS Today Author Laura Bush ; author Beth Ostrosky Stern; author Chely Wright; author Damon Wayans . (N) 7 a.m. KNBC Good Morning America Bill O'Reilly; Queen Latifah ; Scarlett Johansson . (N) 7 a.m. KABC Regis and Kelly Tom Selleck; Joanna Philbin. (N) 9 a.m. KABC The View Judy Sheindlin; Court Yard Hounds perform. (N) 10 a.m. KABC The Doctors Dangers at the nail salon.