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WE’RE ALL GONNA BE STARS!
The live stream camera will soon be a thing at the Riviera.
This project was originally purposed for entertainment but could become a great tool for the police department when it comes to the Riviera fountain and protecting it against vandalism. Alderperson Fesenmaeir chimed in on the live stream and the possibility of increasing its use and value for tourism in Lake Geneva. Everyone has seen Good Morning America, and its live stream of the crowds, and how fun and excited the people get as they wave to the camera and to all their friends and family watching.
Of course, the television show has stars, newscasts, and more. Why not bring that same idea to the Riviera? Fesenmaeir shared her thoughts at the tourism commission meeting last week and how the funding for an upgrade like that would be a great tourism grant option. The idea would have to be thought through in detail and written up appropriately for a meeting agenda item.
The city administrator (David Nord) isn’t necessarily in favor of the idea, for the simple reason that a giant screen television set up at the Riviera outside would have all kinds of expense and weather-related issues. The idea of anything new going in or changing anything at the Riviera is always very controversial and the potential for vandalism of the added items (like exposed television sets) is always a concern. The commission did vote in favor of having further discussions on the matter, but no details or commitments have been made. The original approval for the live stream camera’s installation, purchase, and set-up is about to be given by the city and the installation will be taking place in the spring.
Underground wires and pipes are already laid in for the new police security camera (there to protect the fountain from more vandalism) and these pipes might be shared for the live stream camera. Over the years, lifestream television cameras, playing twenty-four hours a day on Internet sites with their names on them, have been installed at popular spots around the world. Thousands of them. Over more years many of them have been disconnected and taken down. The reason? Lake of any viewership. It seems, even at places where the cameras are installed, like at wonderful attractive beaches, people sometimes tune in but when they find nothing happening except some wind, sand, and surf, they tune right out.
The human condition proves itself, by analyzing that result, to be all about the ‘human’ part of the condition. The people who are considering having some sort of version of Good Morning America that would have throngs of people waving and celebrating is interesting, especially when one considers that such regular shows have ‘bird hunters’ who go out and pay people to come to the camera and then instruct them when and how much to wave and cheer. The late-night television shows do the same thing. If people (an audience) do not show, then there’s not much life to the show and people watching at home change the channel. Some of the staff members of the Geneva Shore Report have been to Good Morning America several times, sometimes as part of the show staff. The question, once this reality becomes understood, is just how much Lake Geneva might want to spend in order to have people gather, wave, and celebrate being at the Riviera, especially when the Southern Wisconsin winter is fully set in. Shows like Good Morning America do not stay in one place, do not have a fixed camera, and certainly don’t produce the show anywhere outside that’s running near or below zero.
