Pokemon Fever Is Spreading to TV Newsrooms

By Chris Ariens 

How many stories has your newsroom done on the Pokemon Go craze?

In a random search on TVEyes, we found that between 4 a.m. and 11:30 p.m. Monday, Pokemon was mentioned 19 times on KABC in Los Angeles, 15 times on WFOR in Miami, 11 times on KUSA in Denver and 18 times on KTVK in Phoenix (that includes teases and stories). So it was only a matter of time before the mobile game was incorporated into a newscast, as happened on WTSP Monday morning:

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