ABC’s “Good Morning America” is back on top in both Total Viewers and A25-54 viewers. For the first three weeks of 2013, NBC’s “Today” took the younger demo.

“GMA” was also up compared to the same week last year: up +15% in total viewers and up +9% in younger viewers, while “Today” was down -12% / -16%. “Today” did see +3% week-to-week total viewer growth and posted its best delivery since the week of November 5, 2012.

But it was No. 3 “CBS This Morning” that showed the most growth. A little more than a year after its debut, the show is up +20% in total viewers and up +8% in A25-54 viewers.

Due to the Martin Luther King holiday, all three Monday telecasts are excluded from the weekly average.

The averages for the week of January 21, 2013:

• Total Viewers: ABC: 5.529M / NBC: 4.868M / CBS: 2.867M

• A25-54 viewers: ABC: 2.105M / NBC: 2.088M / CBS: 1.117M

ABC’s and CBS’s morning shows are going beyond the normal 9am end time covering the run up to the ceremonial Inaugruation — the real one was yesterday. Anchors and correspondents are in place for the 57th Presidential Inauguration. “CBS This Morning’s” Gayle King, Charlie Rose and Norah O’Donnell are broadcasting from a temporary booth on the National Mall. “Today” anchors Matt Lauer, Savannah Guthrie and Al Roker are at the network’s 400 North Capitol studios, also home to Fox News and C-Span. ABC’s “Good Morning America” is a split show, with George Stephanopoulos at ABC”s Newseum studio and Josh Elliot on Pennsylvania Ave. while the rest of the team was in New York.

Fox & Friends, as observed by @GabrielSherman, also mentioned that today is Blue Monday. “The most depressing day of the year,” said Steve Doocy. “It has to do with drab weather, holiday bills and resolutions we have not met,” he explained.

It’s Pres. Obama’s second inauguration, but it’ll be the first time CBS’s Scott Pelley has anchored an Inauguration Day. Pelley will lead CBS News coverage beginning at 10amET Monday following a three-hour “CBS This Morning” with hosts Charlie Rose, Gayle King and Norah O’Donnell in Washington, DC.

Chief White House Correspondent Major Garrett, Wyatt Andrews, Sharyl Attkisson, Margaret Brennan, Jan Crawford, John Dickerson, John Miller, Byron Pitts, Bill Plante and Chip Reid will all contribute to the coverage.

CBS will also broadcast the official swearing-in Sunday at NoonET. The full plan, after the jump…

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The morning show ratings race begins 2013 with a split. “Good Morning America” takes a win in total viewers while NBC’s “Today” wins in younger viewers, its first in 7 weeks.

But #3 “CBS This Morning” showed the most growth year-over-year, up +15% in total viewers and up +5% in younger viewers compared to the former “Early Show” which was in its final week.

“GMA” was up +3% in total viewers and down -3% in younger viewers, while “Today” is down double digits: -13% / -20%.

Because of New Year’s, each program’s averages are based on 3 days (Wed-Fri).

The averages for the week of December 31, 2012:

• Total Viewers: ABC: 4.814M / NBC: 4.572M / CBS: 2.535M

• A25-54 viewers: ABC: 1.778M / NBC: 1.899M / CBS: 932K

Today marks the one-year anniversary of “CBS This Morning,’ the latest iteration of the Eye Network’s morning news program. The trio of Charlie Rose, Gayle King and Erica Hill launched January 9, 2012 with a goal to bring more serious fare to the mornings. Now Hill has left for NBC, and Norah O’Donnell has joined the program, but the goal remains the same.

In the year since it launched, the program is up +3% in total viewers and +5% in households compared to a year ago.

At the very end of the program this morning, Rose and King acknowledged the milestone, with King noting that she was wearing the same dress she wore on that first day. This weekend, King, Rose and O’Donnell will host an anniversary party for ‘CTM” staffers.

After the jump, our tour of the morning show.
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If you watched one of the network morning shows today — any of them — you probably caught some or all of Gov. Chris Christie. Not playing favorites, the New Jersey Governor went on “Today,” “Good Morning America” and “CBS This Morning.”

Christie began his morning in Times Square at ABC’s studio where the interview was taped at 6:15am. He then headed to West 57th Street for a sit-down on “CBS This Morning” before returning to midtown and Rockefeller Center for a live interview on “Today.” All three interviews aired at the same time. NBC’s at 7:05am; CBS’s began at 7:06 and ABC’s at 7:07.

A network insider who spoke with the Governor tells TVNewser, Christie got a charge out of the network trifecta. Getting in front of a national audience of about 12 million was a bonus.

Christie talked Hurricane Sandy relief, the do-nothing Congress and his own political ambitions. Christie told ABC’s George Stephanopoulos, if he runs for president in 2016, “I will be more ready than I was in 2012 because I will have done my job for longer and hopefully gotten better.” And telling CBS’ Charlie Rose that being Governor suits him just fine: “I think what’s going to happen in the future is that governors, 30 Republican governors out of 50 now, they’re going to be the ones who are going to be dictating what the agenda of our party is because we’re actually getting things done.” As for the gridlock plaguing Washington DC, Christie told NBC’s Matt Lauer, “We’ve now done what the president wanted to do. He wanted to raise taxes on the highest earning Americans and Republicans have now acquiesced to that, now it’s time for the president to stand up and say, ‘Here’s what I’m going to do on spending.’”

Christie is also on the cover of next week’s TIME magazine, revealed on the “Today” show.

CBS is going big for this year’s Super Bowl in New Orleans February 3. As we have previously reported, every unit of the company will be represented, with four different sets in the city’s famous Jackson Square.

“CBS This Morning,” “Face the Nation” and the “CBS Evening News” will be live in New Orleans leading up to the game. TVNewser spoke to “Evening News” anchor Scott Pelley at the CBS Broadcast Center today, following a Super Bowl press conference.

Pelley says that the White House has yet to confirm the traditional pre-Super Bowl Presidential interview.

“I would be surprised if they didn’t take advantage of this remarkable opportunity for the President to speak to one third of the people of this country at one time,” Pelley said, noting that the interview “comes around like Christmas.”

“Every White House waits until the last minute, because you never know what is going to be on the President’s plate any given day,” added Pelley, who will do the honors if it comes together. Katie Couric interviewed Pres. Obama the last time CBS broadcast the Super Bowl in 2010.

CBS CEO Leslie Moonves introduced the room to “CBS This Morning’s” Charlie Rose by gently ribbing him on his penchant for staying out late in the New York social scene:

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While “Good Morning America” maintained its #1 spot in the mornings, and saw total viewer growth, all three shows saw a decline in the crucial A25-54 viewership compared to the same week last year. Additionally, at this point last year NBC and CBS were down from the same week in 2010 in younger viewers.

For the week of Dec. 10, 2012, “GMA” and “CBS This Morning” were both down -4% while “Today” was down -24% in the demo. “GMA” was up +5% and “CBS This Morning” up +2% in total viewers while “Today” was down -17% in that measurement.

The averages for the week of December 10, 2012:

• Total Viewers: ABC: 5.091M / NBC: 4.664M / CBS: 2.626M

• A25-54 viewers: ABC: 1.890M / NBC: 1.865M / CBS: 993K

“CBS This Morning” and “The Charlie Rose Show” host Charlie Rose agreed to pay $250,000 (via his production company Charlie Rose Inc.) to settle a lawsuit brought by a former intern on his PBS program.

As we noted back in March, the intern sued Rose and his company for not paying her when she served as an intern. New York has very strict laws regarding unpaid internships, and the media business makes frequent use of the unpaid labor pool.

Rose and his company will also have to pay back wages for as many as 189 other former interns, according to the New York Times.

The settlement agreement states that Mr. Rose and his production company “do not admit any liability or wrongdoing” and says they agreed to the settlement “solely for the purpose of avoiding the costs and disruption of ongoing litigation and to settle all claims.”

Other media companies being sued by former interns include Fox and Hearst. With the Rose settlement, others may very well follow.

This week “CBS This Morning” broadcast from the House Ways & Means Committee hearing room. During a commercial break, Rep. Paul Ryan stopped by to say hello, and he brought along his personal trainer Charlie. Either Charlie is a big ‘CBS This Morning” fan, or the anchors are big PX90 fans, because they gathered together for a group photo. Rep. Ryan had the honor of holding the iPhone and snapping the photo: