A brisk local-news roundup with weather, grief, sports, and a familiar radio snap.
The segment moves with the pace of a morning update, stitching together weather, a Brooklyn tragedy, sports, and a Rock and Roll Hall of Fame note in one quick pass.

New York headlines with a live-radio pulse.
The Update with Brandon Julien keeps a fast local-news rhythm, moving from New York weather and city crime to courts, public health, sports, and national or global stories. It feels built for people who want the day’s essentials with a little live-radio personality still attached.
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The Update with Brandon Julien is a fast, local-news-driven podcast with the instincts of a New York broadcast rundown. It starts with the day outside the window. Heat records, spring break returns, thunderstorms, sunscreen, cool weekends, and the strange relief of warm weather all become part of the frame before the headlines begin. Then the show gets moving. A typical stretch can jump from Ukraine and COVID numbers to a Brooklyn shooting, a Long Island racketeering trial, a federal jail arrest, a sports score, and an odd national or international item. The pace is brisk. The language stays accessible. Grim stories are handled directly, while lighter transitions, dry sports reactions, and personal closers keep the format from feeling sealed off behind a desk. New York remains the center of gravity. The show watches Brooklyn courts, city jails, Central Park weather records, Big Apple heat, Mets frustration, Yankees highlights, Knicks seeding, Rangers goodbyes, and Nets or Islanders results with the familiarity of someone keeping a daily log. Archive installments broaden that log. They revisit WKRB material, early show history, and past political news, including James Comey and President Trump, without turning the feed into a nostalgia project. The archives are treated as evidence of a long-running habit: show up, sort the headlines, keep the city oriented, and move on to the next day. The show can be emotionally uneven because the news is emotionally uneven. A child’s death, war displacement, COVID updates, refinery strike threats, and playoff standings can appear close together. That is part of its character. It mirrors the way local radio carries public life in stacked blocks, where tragedy, weather, and box scores all share the same clock. The strongest fit is for listeners who want a familiar New York voice around the news without needing every story stretched into a debate. It is practical, conversational, and restless. It gives the city a quick daily scan, then signs off with a little warmth still in the room.
Made for: For listeners who want New York local news, weather, courts, public health updates, and sports in a quick, familiar format. It especially fits people who like broadcast-style pacing with occasional dry personality.
What sets it apart: The show stands out by blending hard local headlines with weather talk, sports detail, archive segments, and conversational sign-offs. It feels less like a polished national briefing and more like a daily New York news clock kept by one familiar voice.
New York is a city full of stories. On The Update with Brandon Julien, we just happen to have many of them. Wherever you may be or however you may listen to us, get caught up on everything that you need to know because anything can happen in New York.
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Brandon Julien combines specific New York coverage with politics, world news, sports and humor in a broad, personable bulletin.
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A brisk local-news roundup with weather, grief, sports, and a familiar radio snap.
The segment moves with the pace of a morning update, stitching together weather, a Brooklyn tragedy, sports, and a Rock and Roll Hall of Fame note in one quick pass.
A brisk Monday rundown that starts light, turns serious, and keeps its pace.
This episode settles into the kind of Monday reset that moves from a spring break sign off to a warm weather forecast, then pivots into harder news, including the New Jersey Chick fil A shooting story.
A year-one WKRB archive catches The Update shaping its voice through local radio and 2017 news.
The Update's year-one archive frames 2017 as both a starting point for the program and a demanding news year. It begins with the first lines from February 28, then moves through snowstorm Stella, de Blasio's school-closure call around noon, an Intelligence Committee opening…
Fast, local, and a little messy in a way that feels live.
This episode reads like a quick local newscast, moving from Harvey Weinstein arriving for a trial that is about to begin, to the Senate impeachment trial, to the Mets finalizing a new manager, and then to a Super Bowl wing promotion that offers free chicken wings if the game…
A brisk Friday update moving from Ukraine and RT to Cuomo, Hall of Fame finalists, and the show's fifth-anniversary season.
Brandon Julien's Friday update keeps a wide lens, moving from Russian strikes on Ukrainian cities and the fighting around Kiev to Britain's revocation of RT's license, then on to Andrew Cuomo's openness to all options on a possible run for his former job.
A brisk New York update where a Brooklyn tragedy, school changes, 5G worries, and local sports share the same frame.
The Update opens with a tight New York rundown led by a grim Brooklyn story, as police say a 15-year-old girl was found dead in the street after apparently being hit by a school bus.
A wide-ranging news rundown finds its warmth in Brandon Julian's fifth-anniversary humor.
The Update sets Russia's stalled ground offensive in Ukraine alongside strikes on Kiev and Liev, Britain's move to revoke RT's license, and Andrew Cuomo's continued openness to seeking his old office.


A Times host interviews the paper's own reporters on the day's biggest story.

Outline writers unpack their own published stories, one essay-driven conversation at a time.

Monocle's weekday briefing on Iran, Hormuz, and Gulf diplomacy, often broadcast live from Dubai and Abu Dhabi.


A news roundup covering topics including the MLB lockout, New York's COVID mask mandate changes, recreational marijuana developments, sports scores, historical preservation of Martin Luther King Jr.'s wedding house, and Valentine's Day statistics.
This news update covers international conflicts, sports bans, legal developments, and local stories including the MLB lockout, Russia-Ukraine talks, and McDonald's new menu combinations.
This episode covers international news including the ongoing Russia-Ukraine war with humanitarian impacts and diplomatic efforts, along with domestic crime updates and a sports incident involving a Mets player.
This episode covers multiple news topics including the MLB lockout's financial impact on players, cannabis company legal disputes, New York's cybersecurity plans, rising pregnancy-related deaths, and Chipotle's viral TikTok secrets.
Day 48 of the MLB lockout.
Friday starts heavy.
This episode covers international conflicts, local museum financial troubles, COVID-19 updates, sports news, and a tragic incident in China.
This episode covers international news on the Ukraine conflict and EU sanctions, along with domestic stories including an MS-13 trial, a prison scandal, sports results, and a potential refinery strike in California.
This episode provides a weather update for the weekend and reports on a barbecue incident and Mike Trout's baseball performance.
This episode discusses record-breaking heat in New York City, with temperatures reaching 90 degrees in Central Park and potential thunderstorms, while providing weather updates and safety tips.
This episode covers breaking weather records in New York, a tragic infant death case in Brooklyn, and the struggling Mets baseball team.
Brandon Julian opens with a warm Tuesday forecast and a quick heads-up that an afternoon thunderstorm can't be ruled out.
Brandon Julian opens with a Monday greeting and a spring-break check-in.
Brandon Julian packages The Update with Brandon Julian as "the best of what I like to call the WKRB update, year number one," pulling from 2017 archive material.
Brandon Julian opens the show from 90.3 WKRB in Brooklyn with a quick sweep of headlines.
Friday opens with war news as Russian forces strike Ukrainian cities from a distance again, hitting sites in Kiev and in the country's west while the ground offensive inches forward under fierce Ukrainian resistance.
This episode discusses the warm weather forecast and reports on a police investigation into an improvised explosive device thrown at an anti-Islam demonstration.