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    <periodOfReport>2015-12-04</periodOfReport>

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    <issuer>
        <issuerCik>0001091801</issuerCik>
        <issuerName>MARTHA STEWART LIVING OMNIMEDIA INC</issuerName>
        <issuerTradingSymbol>MSO</issuerTradingSymbol>
    </issuer>

    <reportingOwner>
        <reportingOwnerId>
            <rptOwnerCik>0001256813</rptOwnerCik>
            <rptOwnerName>MARTHA STEWART FAMILY LIMITED PARTNERSHIP</rptOwnerName>
        </reportingOwnerId>
        <reportingOwnerAddress>
            <rptOwnerStreet1>48 GIRDLE RIDGE RD.</rptOwnerStreet1>
            <rptOwnerStreet2></rptOwnerStreet2>
            <rptOwnerCity>KATONAH</rptOwnerCity>
            <rptOwnerState>NY</rptOwnerState>
            <rptOwnerZipCode>10536</rptOwnerZipCode>
            <rptOwnerStateDescription></rptOwnerStateDescription>
        </reportingOwnerAddress>
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            <isDirector>0</isDirector>
            <isOfficer>0</isOfficer>
            <isTenPercentOwner>1</isTenPercentOwner>
            <isOther>0</isOther>
        </reportingOwnerRelationship>
    </reportingOwner>

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        <derivativeTransaction>
            <securityTitle>
                <value>Class B Common Stock, par value $0.01</value>
            </securityTitle>
            <conversionOrExercisePrice>
                <footnoteId id="F1"/>
            </conversionOrExercisePrice>
            <transactionDate>
                <value>2015-12-04</value>
            </transactionDate>
            <deemedExecutionDate></deemedExecutionDate>
            <transactionCoding>
                <transactionFormType>4</transactionFormType>
                <transactionCode>D</transactionCode>
                <equitySwapInvolved>0</equitySwapInvolved>
            </transactionCoding>
            <transactionTimeliness>
                <value></value>
            </transactionTimeliness>
            <transactionAmounts>
                <transactionShares>
                    <value>24984625</value>
                    <footnoteId id="F2"/>
                </transactionShares>
                <transactionPricePerShare>
                    <value>0.00</value>
                </transactionPricePerShare>
                <transactionAcquiredDisposedCode>
                    <value>D</value>
                </transactionAcquiredDisposedCode>
            </transactionAmounts>
            <exerciseDate>
                <footnoteId id="F1"/>
            </exerciseDate>
            <expirationDate>
                <footnoteId id="F1"/>
            </expirationDate>
            <underlyingSecurity>
                <underlyingSecurityTitle>
                    <value>Class A Common Stock, par value $0.01</value>
                </underlyingSecurityTitle>
                <underlyingSecurityShares>
                    <value>24984625</value>
                </underlyingSecurityShares>
            </underlyingSecurity>
            <postTransactionAmounts>
                <sharesOwnedFollowingTransaction>
                    <value>0</value>
                </sharesOwnedFollowingTransaction>
            </postTransactionAmounts>
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                </directOrIndirectOwnership>
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    <footnotes>
        <footnote id="F1">Each share of Class B Common Stock is convertible at any time at the option of the holder into one share of Class A Common Stock and has no expiration date.</footnote>
        <footnote id="F2">Disposed of pursuant to the transactions contemplated under the Agreement and Plan of Merger, dated as of June 22, 2015, as amended, by
and among the Sequential Brands Group, Inc. (&quot;Sequential&quot;), Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia, Inc. (the &quot;Company&quot;), Singer Madeline
Holdings, Inc. (which was renamed Sequential Brands Group, Inc. and is the successor issuer to Sequential and the Company as of the effective
time) (&quot;Holdings&quot;), Madeline Merger Sub, Inc. and Singer Merger Sub, Inc. (the &quot;Merger Agreement&quot;). In accordance to the Merger Agreement
and the transactions contemplated therein, at the effective time of the merger transactions, Ms. Stewart was entitled to receive merger
consideration valued at $6.15 per share.</footnote>
    </footnotes>

    <remarks>The disposition of the referenced securities of the Company by the reporting person was made as a result of the business combination of the Company and Sequential Brands Group, Inc. with and into wholly owned subsidiaries of Holdings, Singer Merger Sub, Inc. and Madeline Merger Sub, Inc., respectively, which mergers were consummated on December 4, 2015, prior to the filing date for the Current Report on Form 8-K filed by Holdings reporting such mergers. As a result of such mergers the Company ceased to be a publicly traded company with Holdings becoming the successor issuer to both the Company and Sequential Brands Group, Inc. The disposition of all such securities by the reporting person was approved and exempted pursuant to Rule 16b-3 under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended.</remarks>

    <ownerSignature>
        <signatureName>/s/ Martha Stewart, as General Partner of the Reporting Person</signatureName>
        <signatureDate>2015-12-04</signatureDate>
    </ownerSignature>
</ownershipDocument>
