Theres a huge set of payments from any manufacturer who's product gets
mentioned on the show that go to Rus Morash and his merry minions. Not
only ius any manufacturer giving away a miniscule amount of product, they
are playing a huge "placement fee" to the producers.

Not sure if any of that "placement fee" money goes into any hmeowner
project, but it does pay the "talaent", such as it is, on the how -- i.e.
"Rich" the plumbing guy, "Tom" the contractor guy; "Norm" th whatever guy,
"Roger" the landscape guy, and the "host".

Morash has made a HUGE amount of money with the franchise, and only a small
percentage of that has filtered back to WGBH and less to PBS as a whole.

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Jim McLaughlin

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"Dave" wrote in message
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A way long time ago, I think on one of their projects they stated the
costs and the break down.

The home owners have to put up a certain amount (for that project it was
about $50,000) and there were some things donated to them but they had to
claim them (the value of them) on their taxes. The show didn't put any
money into the project, it only rounded up the small handful of
'donations' from the companies they featured their products for. For
example, instead of paying $10,000 for radiant floor heating, the home
owner's cost would be around $4,000 with a $6,000 figure being 'donated'.

If the home owners would have renovated without TOH, it would have cost
about $100,000.



Jack wrote:

features renovation of a modern house in Cambridge MA, and, it must be
costing $$$MILLIONS! The house features all kinds of labor-intensive
details.

Who pays for this? The program, which is partly funded by our
donations? Or the home owner?