“Good Day Philadelphia” anchors Mike Jerrick and Sheinelle Jones had trouble keeping it together at the conclusion of their interview with Olympic swimmer Ryan Lochte this morning.

The WTXF interview ended on a somewhat strange note with Lochte discussing what the film crew for his reality show, “What Would Ryan Do?,” does when he goes to the bathroom. After they bid him goodbye, Jerrick and Jones spent more than two minutes trying to control their laughter on the air (watch starting at about the 4:00 mark here).

“Seriously: how are they gonna get enough material?” Jerrick asked. “What was the question that stumped him?”

Jones, who tried to string sentences together despite snorting and crying with laughter, repeated “but he’s so cute!” as she tried to catch her breath.

“She’s snorting. We gotta go to break,” Jerrick said.

Kacie McDonnell, the morning traffic reporter on Philadelphia Fox O&O WTXF, talks to the Philadelphia Daily News about her career. Despite WTXF being her first job in television, McDonnell said she has been “accepted with open arms” by the “Good Day Philadelphia” team:

She said that her lack of experience has never been an issue with the “Good Day” team headed up by anchors Sheinelle Jones, Mike Jerrick and Karen Hepp.

“There has not been an ounce of any bad feelings or ill will, not at all,” she said. “They accepted me with open arms. I’m kind of like the little sister of the group. We’re totally a family.

“Definitely, there was something to prove, being right out of college, but I think slowly, and with the help of everyone at the station – on air and behind the scenes – I’m starting to figure out who I am on a professional level.”

A change on the early morning newscast at New York City Fox O&O WNYW: Since last Monday, Juliet Huddy has been filling in at the anchor desk alongside Steve Lacy from 4:30 to 7 a.m.

Heather Nauert, who has anchored “Good Day Wakeup” since 2009, has left WNYW. Station sources say WNYW is looking at both internal and external candidates, including Huddy, to anchor the early morning show. The station is having on-air tryouts for the position, according to sources.

Huddy is the former host of “The Morning Show with Mike and Juliet,” a syndicated morning show that she helmed alongside Mike Jerrick. After the show was cancelled in 2009, Huddy returned to Fox News Channel, where she is a frequent contributor to “The O’Reilly Factor.”

A WNYW spokesperson was not immediately available for comment.

>Update: a station spokesperson has confirmed that WNYW is looking internally and externally to fill the open co-anchor position for “Good Day Wakeup.”

Kacie McDonnell made her debut on WTXF in Philadelphia yesterday (video above).

McDonnell joins the Fox O&O as the morning traffic anchor. She dropped by in April after it was revealed that morning anchor Mike Jerrick was a fan of her commercials for Fiat. Video of her earlier appearance via Red Lasso inside… Read more

WTXF morning anchor Mike Jerrick defended Fox News correspondent Doug Luzader this week after he appeared to be sleeping when Austin Fox O&O KTBC patched to him for a live hit on Wednesday morning.

“It was obvious you were reading,” Jerrick told Luzader, who was appearing on WTXF via satellite. “That guy in Austin is a nut.”

Jerrick went on to explain that Luzader was reading The Washington Post at the time and KTBC didn’t have his earpiece “dialed in” properly. Video inside… Read more

WNYW reporter Antwan Lewis appeared live on Fox sister station WTXF this morning, covering the New Jersey funeral of Whitney Houston, when a car collided with another vehicle directly behind him.

At the time of the collision, Lewis was listening to a question from WTXF anchor Mike Jerrick, who apparently didn’t realize that there had been a fender bender just feet away from the reporter. A moment of shock registered on Lewis’s face but he smoothly went on with his live report without mentioning the crash. Video inside… Read more

Kim Kardashian turned 31 on Friday, but at least one person wasn’t celebrating.

In a segment announcing celebrity birthdays, KDFW anchor Tim Ryan refused to acknowledge Kardashian’s big day, even with some gentle prodding from co-anchor Lauren Przybyl (watch the video, via toofab, above). “I’m on strike,” Ryan proclaimed. “She’s not a celebrity!”

Ryan isn’t the only anchor who has an issue with the reality star. Last month, WTXF anchor Mike Jerrick publicly mocked Kardashian, and sister Kourtney, seconds after finishing an interview with the two.

WTXF anchor Mike Jerrick has some thoughts — and some impressions — of Kim and Kourtney Kardashian that he just can’t hold in, even during an interview with the two sisters.

“Can they still hear us?” Jerrick asked co-anchor Sheinelle Jones as he launched into a series of high-pitched, scrunched-nose impressions of the Kardashian sisters’ shoulder pads, which they were on WXTF to promote (watch the video, above). Read more