ABC has launched a new ad campaign for “This Week with George Stephanopoulos.” The promos, which use the tagline “Sunday morning means George,” feature Stephanopoulos leaving the “This Week” set to drop in on people having brunch and coffee.

The ads also make reference to Stephanopoulos on “also on Sunday mornings,” pointing out that he anchors both “This Week” and “Good Morning America.” Watch after the jump. Read more

“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

CNN’s new talk show host, George Stroumboulopoulos, made the TV rounds on his new channel and elsewhere this week to promote his new series “Stroumboulopoulos.”

First, the important thing: Stroumboulopoulos finally went face to face on “Good Morning America” with a certain American news anchor with a very similar name: George Stephanopoulos.

He also appeared on CNN’s “Starting Point,” where he says he grew up a big sports fan, and started his career as a sports reporter:
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CBS’ “Face the Nation” was the most-watched Sunday public affairs show June 2, topping NBC’s “Meet the Press” by +470,000 Total Viewers and +70,000 A25-54 viewers.

Compared to the same week last year, only “Face the Nation” (+19% in Total Viewers / +13% in A24-54) and Univision’s “Al Punto” (+14% / +13%) are up in both ratings measurements. “Fox News Sunday” is up +5% in Total Viewers and down -20% in the A25-54 demographic, and “Meet the Press” (-5% / -1%) and ABC’s “This Week” (-11% / -24%) were down across the board.

Cable replays of “Fox News Sunday” averaged a combined 2,389,000 Total Viewers and 482,000 viewers in the demo. “Meet the Press” delivered an additional  939,000 Total Viewers and 506,000 A25-54 viewers with rebroadcasts.

“Face the Nation” is based on the first half-hour only, as the full contiguous hour aired in just 63% of the country.

The numbers for June 2:

• BBC News correspondent Ian Pannell and cameraman Darren Conway were awarded the David Bloom Award at last night’s Radio/Television Correspondents’ Association Dinner. Pannell and Conway were recognized for their reporting from Syria.

• Mika Brzezinski and Arianna Huffington are finishing up their first conference for women in New York. “The Third Metric” is about achieving success through well-being, wisdom and giving back. Katie Couric, Lesley Stahl and George Stephanopoulos participated.

• Savannah Guthrie was among 500 volunteers helping restore the working-class Brooklyn neighborhood of Gerritsen Beach today. Meredith Corporation and Lowe’s partnered with Rebuilding Together to help bring long-term recovery following Hurricane Sandy.

The studio space at the Newseum in Washington, D.C. is changing hands, Broadcasting & Cable’s John Eggerton reports. Next month, ABC’s “This Week” will vacate the space and return to the network’s Washington bureau, and Al Jazeera America will move in.

“This Week” is hosted by George Stephanopoulos in New York a majority of the time. ABC’s D.C. bureau will be home to Washington-based guests and for the one week a month that Martha Raddatz guest-hosts the show.

Al Jazeera America, which B&C reports will have both office space and editing facilities in the Newseum, is preparing for its launch later this year. The network recently hired Adam May, a local reporter from Baltimore, as a D.C.-based national correspondent.

When a media outlet becomes the news, it’s interesting to watch how other media outlets cover the story. At issue today, the Justice Department admitting it secretly recorded phone conversations of five AP reporters and an editor. It was a big story on all the morning shows. (We already told you about the reaction on “Morning Joe” from the AP’s executive editor.) On “CBS This Morning” Bob Orr called it “a very aggressive investigation.” On the “Today” show Pete Williams called it “an unusually broad government effort.” But on “Good Morning America,” Fox News host Bill O’Reilly said this may be the least of Pres. Obama’s worries.

“I don’t think that’s going to amount to much,” O’Reilly said of the phone taps. “It looks like they went through the warrant process and they had authorization to look at these records — the Justice Department did. But president Obama, he’s got some problems now. He better start to get control of the situation because there’s a lot of stuff going on.”

Several television news journalists have landed on Reader’s Digest list of “The 100 Most Trusted People in America.” At #12, “Good Morning America” anchor Robin Roberts is the most-trusted television news personality on the list.

In addition to Roberts, the morning shows are well represented: “GMA” anchor George Stephanopoulos is #57, while “Today” show co-hosts Savannah Guthrie and Matt Lauer are #85 and #97, respectively.

The three evening news anchors make the list –ABC’s Diane Sawyer at #25, NBC’s Brian Williams at #29 and CBS’ Scott Pelley at #63. ABC’s Barbara Walters (#34), Katie Couric (#37) and Christiane Amanpour (#56) are also among the most trusted.

From the cable news landscape, CNN’s Sanjay Gupta is #17 and  Anderson Cooper is #50. HLN’s Dr. Drew Pinsky is #90 and Fox News anchor Shepard Smith rounds out the list at #100.

Without an election in the near future, at least a few of the Sunday public affairs shows are branching out this weekend and covering something even more ingrained into the national psyche: sports.

CBS’ “Face the Nation” will be dedicating its show this week on “The Emergence of gay Athletes,” featuring interviews with Billie Jean King and Martina Navratilova, among others. The show comes as NBA player Jason Collins came out of the closet in Sports Illustrated, becoming one of the big news stories of the week.

“Fox News Sunday” meanwhile will see Chris Wallace interviewing boxing legend Mike Tyson (see the photo above). Wallace talks to Tyson about how he blew through hundreds of millions of dollars, and how he has been trying to turn his life around.

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ABC News’ George Stephanopoulos has snagged the first television interview with Jason Collins, the first openly gay NBA player. Collins, a free agent who played for the Boston Celtics and the Washington Wizards this season, penned this week’s Sports Illustrated cover story, writing: “I’m a 34-year-old NBA center. I’m black. And I’m gay.”

Stephanopoulos’ interview, which is billed as an exclusive, will air Tuesday on “Good Morning America” and across the other ABC News platforms.