All these visitors are filling up hotels. Tim Darby, general manager of the Magnolia Hotel downtown, said all of his property’s 145 rooms have been booked for Berkshire weekend since October, as usual.

Darby, the president of the Metropolitan Hospitality Association, said he hasn’t heard from fellow hotel managers one way or the other about whether the livestream is affecting bookings.

“No news is good news,” he said. “I’m anticipating that we have a very strong weekend for hotels in Omaha. It’s a great piece of business. It kicks off our summer as a hotel industry.”

If anything is a problem, it’s the continuous expansion of the number of hotel properties and rooms in Omaha. Berkshire weekend is a sellout, but the growing competition makes things harder the rest of the year, Darby said.

This spring, there are more than 15,000 hotel rooms in the area, up about 13 percent from three years ago, according to data Darby shared from STR, a London firm that collects hotel market data.

But even with nearly 2,000 new rooms since then, any late bookings had best look for rooms outside of the downtown area, where hotel managers say vacancies were gobbled up months ago.