Midweek news nuggets ...

WESH owned coverage of the cruise ship accident off Port Canaveral on Tuesday. Channel 2 stayed with the story more than its network competitors and grabbed a phone interview with a passenger on the ship while it was still out at sea. He provided vivid descriptions of the conditions on board. And even when WESH 2 News gave way to NBC Nightly News at 6:30, the station continued its coverage until 8 p.m. on WESH.com. By doing so, it was able to show the injured passengers getting off the ship and being taken to area hospitals. ...

Want to know more about incoming WESH anchor Martha Sugalski? Channel 2 has posted videos with her chatting with her 4 p.m. co-anchor Jim Payne and with her 11 p.m. co-anchor Wendy Chioji. ...

WOFL will be among the Fox O&O's getting a new national morning show from its network. Here in O-Town, the show is expected to run live at 9 a.m. -- after Fox 35's four-hour morning news block. ...

Is Fox 35 news about to turn serious? I've chided the WOFL's newscasts previously for being a little too fluffy for my taste, but an e-mailer points out that Fox 35 has been advertising for an investigative reporter and producer on its website for weeks. ...

And a correction of sorts to a post last week saying that WESH's new 11 p.m. combo of Wendy Chioji and Martha Sugalski will be the first all-women anchor team since 1989 when Marla Weech and Barbara West anchored at 11 for WFTV in 1989. A former WESHer reports that back around 1997 Laurel Porter and Chioji anchored the Channel 2's 5:30 newscast together. OK, but I was talking about at 6 or 11. ...

The Daily Buzz's resident chef is movin' on up -- at least temporarily. Jon Ashton, who appears regularly on national morning show out of WB18's studios, will be a guest chef on NBC's Today show in New York on Aug. 18.