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THURSDAY,AUGUST 29,2002
ENTERTAINMENT
Martha's mess not hurting show
The Associated Press
NEW YORK — If Martha Stewart's television empire is to crumble because of insider trading allegations, so far only a few tiny cracks are visible.
Ever since her infamous cabbage-stabbing appearance in July, the one television gig that Stewart can't control — her weekly segment on CBS' The Early Show — has been put on indefinite hold.
Neither Stewart nor CBS want to mix cooking with financial questions again.
King World, the company that syndicates Martha Stewart Living, reports no fallout from the scandal that has put Stewart on the front pages of many newspapers this summer.
She's being investigated to determine whether she had insider information that led her to drop a drug company's stock just before federal regulators rejected the company's application for a new colon cancer drug.
No advertisers have backed out of the show, and no stations have chosen to stop airing it, said Arthur Sando, King World spokesman.
Garnett Losak, an expert on syndication for Petry Television said the show's content was never controversial. The program gets decent, not great, ratings and is popular among many of the women who are daytime TV's predominant viewers. It has never been hard to find advertisers, she said.
But some station operators have privately expressed some antsiness about the show recently, Losak said.
Questions about the show's future grew louder when King World announced earlier this month that it was producing a new talk show, Lizing it Up! with hosts Jack Ford and Alexandra Wentworth.
It's due to come on the air in fall 2003 and is designed to compete with Live with Regis and Kelly. It will be produced live each day during the 9 a.m. ET
time slot.
One problem: That's the same time slot where Martha Stewart Living airs in 52 of its 158 television markets, including six of the nation's 10 largest.
Many observers in the industry immediately concluded that King World was looking to replace Stewart with Living it Up!
Sando said that was not the case. The talk show was in development before investigators began looking into Stewart's finances, he said.
To be fair, it's common for syndicators to have shows in production or development that might compete with each other for airtime, much like the bignetworks do.
Both shows can air at any time during the day, and King World is leaving it up to interested stations to decide where to put them.
How long the networks will want Stewart's face on their air if her legal woes grow more serious is another matter.
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