ABC’s “This Week with Christiane Amanpour” placed third in both categories, with ‘Fox News Sunday with Chris Wallace” and Univision’s “Al Punto con Jorge Ramos” (which we’re adding to the weekly ratings report) trading off for fourth and fifth place in total and demo viewers.

All five programs were up compared to the same week last year in the demo, while “MTP” was the only program to decline in total viewers compares to last year.

The numbers for November 13:

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The special week of shows, which it is calling “When Grizzlies Attack: The Daily Show Midterm Teapartyganza” will tape from Shakespeare Theatre Company’s Sidney Harman Hall October 25-28.

Stewart and his motley crew of correspondents will “feature news and analysis on heated races across the country,” the network says.

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• Cleveland Plain Dealer

“ABC swept to victory by wisely relying on the tested triumvirate of anchor Charles Gibson, Diane Sawyer and Orange High School graduate George Stephanopoulos.”

• NY Daily News

“Cable and network news kept things lively for more than two hours by pumping the notion of a close race, which is the way to keep viewers watching.”

• Miami Herald

“As CBS cameras showed the crowd amassing for Obama’s victory speech in Chicago, Bob Scheiffer — practically the only person on the air Tuesday night to remember it — noted the historical irony of the site: Grant Park, where antiwar riots 40 years ago shattered the bonds of a Democratic Party coalition that had won seven of the previous nine presidential elections.

• Boston Herald

“The presidential race drew unprecedented media coverage that ended last night with an all-out orgy of bloviating TV punditry – capping an election season that brought out the best, but mostly the worst, in broadcast journalism.”

• Boston Globe

“For all the feverish analysis the TV networks have spun in the past hours, days, and weeks, something changed the moment an Obama victory became clear. Across the dial, the rhetoric shifted from politics to history.”

• Houston Chronicle

“Each of the major networks called the election for Obama as the polls closed on the West Coast at 10 p.m. CNN and MSNBC commemorated the moment with whip-around video coverage of celebrating supporters in Chicago, New York, Los Angeles and elsewhere, then turned to analysis, sometimes of an emotional nature, from their studio contributors.”

• Hartford Courant

“Holograms walked the studio. Reporters roamed virtual answer chambers. Maps flashed and revolved and zoomed in and were painted on ice with what looked like exterminator’s gear.”

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According the the site, the moderators will be Jim Lehrer of PBS, Tom Brokaw of NBC, Gwen Ifill of PBS and Bob Scheiffer of CBS.

There is no announcement yet on the Commission on Presidential Debates website.

We’ll have more information as we get it…

> Update: It’s official. September 26 — Lehrer from Mississippi, VP debate October 2 — Ifill from Missouri, October 7 — Brokaw from Tennessee, October 15 — Schieffer from New York. The full press release, after the jump.

> Update, update: FishbowlDC reports Lehrer has hosted the first presidential debate every cycle since 1988.

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