BBC News is making some staff changes in the U.S. Paul Danahar has been appointed the Editor of the BBC’s Americas Bureaux, based in Washington, D.C. Danahar will oversee the BBC’s newsgathering operation in North and South America. He moves from Jerusalem, where he was the BBC’s Middle East Bureau Editor since 2010. Danahar replaces Simon Wilson who moves to Brussels and will be the BBC’s Europe Bureaux Editor.

Also, Nick Bryant (left) moves from Sydney to New York where he will be the New York and United Nations correspondent. Bryant has been in Australia since 2006. Before that he was the BBC’s South Asia Correspondent from 2003 to 2006. It’s Bryant’s second stint in the U.S. From 1998 to 2003 he reported from the Washington bureau.

“Good Morning America” makes it 42 weeks in row at #1, its longest stretch at the top in more than 21 years.

But it’s #3 “CBS This Morning” that showed the most growth compared to the same week last year. The show is up +30% in viewers and up +19% in the A25-54 demo. “GMA” too, was up big in both measurements: +20% in viewers and +14% in the demo.

NBC’s “Today” was down year-over-year: -5% / -9%. But did increase from the week in both Total Viewers and younger viewers and also won Wednesday and Thursday in the demo.

While ABC and CBS are growing and NBC seems to have stemmed their losses, here’s an interesting stat: 1.32 million more people watched the network morning shows last week, than watched at this same time last year.

The averages for the week of June 3, 2013:

• Total Viewers: ABC: 5.330M / NBC: 4.506M / CBS: 2.784M

• A25-54 viewers: ABC: 2.014M / NBC: 1.818M / CBS: 1.000M

“Meet the Press” executive producer Betsy Fischer Martin remembers Tim Russert, five years after his death.

Russert, who was NBC’s Washington Bureau chief and who had moderated “Meet the Press” for 17 years — longer than anyone else — died of a massive heart attack on June 13, 2008 as he was preparing for that Sunday’s show in the Washington Bureau. In an excerpt that is part of an upcoming “Meet the Press” ebook, Fischer Martin writes:

The large sign in front of his desk read “Thou Shalt Not Whine” and he meant it. As the Washington Bureau Chief, he expected hard work from those around him because he worked hard as well. By 9am in the morning, he’d already have read five or six newspapers and made several rounds of phone calls Capitol Hill and the White House. But he always wanted to know more. Often times his first words to me each morning were, “What do you know?”

Tim, of course, was a human being with faults like the rest of us. But he had a strong sense of right and wrong, and what was fair and unfair. He was deeply loyal to those close to him. Even if I would make a mistake or something would go wrong, we’d talk about it and he’d end the conversation by saying, “onward and upward.” It was his way of saying, ‘learn from this, don’t dwell on it and know I am on your side.’

Richelle Carey is no longer working for HLN, a spokesperson confirms with TVNewser. Carey was an anchor and correspondent for Prime News and had been with HLN for 7 years, joining from KMOV-TV in St. Louis.

Carey is also on the move to a new home, as she tweeted Tuesday, “Empty room in my house. Onward and upward! The future is bright.” She also Tweeted about the frustration of canceling her DirecTV account. (We hear that, Richelle!)

(h/t ICN)

Tuesday afternoon and into the evening the cable news networks — CNN in particular — kept cameras trained on Taksim Square in Istanbul where protestors and police clashed into the night. CNN had its own correspondents in the square, and above it, reporting the breaking developments, often while donning gas masks.

Despite all that, the news from Turkey did not seem to resonate with American audiences.

CNN had its 4th lowest primetime and total day A25-54 demo numbers since 2006. The 9pm hour of Piers Morgan Live had its worst outing in the demo in almost a year — since August 2012. And that hour included a compelling interview with George Zimmerman‘s brother Robert.

During the height of the news from Istanbul from 2-4pmET, CNN came in fourth in the demo behind FNC, MSNBC and HLN. CNN was second among total viewers in those hours behind only Fox.

In the demo, CNN was down -60% for the day vs. its quarter-to-date average; MSNBC was down -28% and Fox News was flat. Among Total Viewers, CNN was down -45%, MSNBC was down -3% and FNC was up +4% vs. its quarter-to-date average.

“CBS This Morning” co-anchor Gayle King was at her other day job, O: The Oprah Magazine in Hearst Tower this afternoon when two men got trapped outside the 45th floor after a window washing scaffold collapsed.

King Instagramed this photo (and others) — most of them sideways — of FDNY rescuers in action.

The men were brought to safety after about 90 minutes. Hearst is home to O as well as Harper’s Bazaar, Esquire and Cosmopolitan and Hearst Television, which owns 29 TV stations across the country.

FishbowlNY has more on what happened.

Robin Meade‘s a busy woman.

Her new album, “Count On Me” hit stores today, tomorrow night she’ll be feted at a release party in New York City, this weekend she’ll be co-hosting the daytime Emmys, and soon she’ll be providing news updates for a morning show on NASH-FM, a new country music radio station in New York. A source tells TVNewser, Meade will be providing news updates on “America’s Morning Show” during the commercial breaks of her own HLN show “Morning Express.”

Even though it serves a New York audience, the radio show will originate live in front of a studio audience in Nashville and will be hosted by Blair Garner, Terri Clark, Sunny Sweeney, Chuck Wicks and Lee Ann Womack.

ABC’s “World News with Diane Sawyer” remains in second place in the evening news ratings, but was the only broadcast to show growth in both total viewers (+4%) and the younger demo (+.5%) compared to the same week last year. And for the first time since September, “World News” won two nights of the week — Monday and Friday.

“Nightly News with Brian Williams” still won the week by more than a half million viewers. The NBC broadcast was flat vs. last year in total viewers and down -6% in the demo. “CBS Evening News with Scott Pelley” was up the most of the three shows: +9% in total viewers and flat in the younger demo.

Due to the NBA Finals Game 1 on Thursday “World News” was removed from the average and based on four days, while “Nightly News” and “Evening News” are based on five days.

Numbers for the week of June 3, 2013:

Today — and today only — there will be a new President of ABC News.

Ben Sherwood is swapping jobs with ABC’s Senior Social Media Editor Andrew Springer as part of the MVP program ABC News launched earlier this year. Each week a “most value-able player” is chosen and is provided with the opportunity for a job swap, shadow, or other exchange that enables them to see and learn more about another part of ABC News.

Springer was among the first MVPs and he wanted to be the boss. Springer’s fist tasks: ABCNews.com now looks like Buzzfeed and Stephen Colbert will anchor “World News.” (We kid.)

“He may only be 26 years old, but Andrew is a great mentor,” says Sherwood. “Today is exciting and a little nerve-racking because I know that I will have a much tougher time filling his sneakers than he mine.”

Springer led ABC’s morning editorial call and later this afternoon Sherwood will give a presentation on ABC’s performance on Facebook to the digital team.

Says Springer: “You gotta love working in an organization that is open to having the President switch jobs with the Senior Social Editor for a day.”

• CNN’s Erin Burnett will report live from Tehran later this week as Iranians prepare to go to the polls. On “OutFront” she will cover the candidates, talk with voters and find out whether economic sanctions – the toughest the West has ever placed on Iran – are actually working.

• CBS will present another in its Interfaith Specials: “What’s So Funy About Religion” airs Sunday, June 30. The program features a variety of voices from various religious traditions, and the humor that is often hidden within religion and faith.

• CNBC’s “The Profit” joins the network’s primetime reality line-up Tuesday, July 30. Corporate turn-around expert Marcus Lemonis puts $2 million of his own money on the line looking for the next great business to invest in.