Arts & Entertainment
John Lemley’s City Café is back on the air!
Program to join GPB Classical line up starting April 5. More info at GPB.org/classical.
Atlanta, GA — Beginning Tuesday, April 5, 2022, listeners of GPB Classical, Georgia Public Broadcasting’s 24-hour classical music channel, will hear a new program joining the lineup.
John Lemley’s City Café, hosted by well-known Atlanta media personality John Lemley, will air at 1 p.m. Tuesdays through Thursdays on gpb.org/classical, HD Radio, and Amazon Alexa devices.
City Café will include a Top 500 playlist of classical music, mixing in some film scores and video game music, which has become a successful platform for composers, as well as highlight new releases and Georgia-based classical ensembles and performers.
GPB Classical is also available through HD Radio in these markets: Albany (WUNV 91.7 HD 2); Augusta (WACG 90.7 HD2); Columbus (WJSP 88.1 HD2); Macon (WMUM 89.7 HD2) and Savannah (WSVH 91.1 HD2).
Lemley first began hosting and producing a variety of news and arts programs in Atlanta in 1997 for Atlanta NPR affiliate WABE. In 2015, he moved his cultural program, City Café to WMLB-Atlanta, where the show was expanded and retooled to focus purely on classical music and arts interviews.
“With every piece of music I play and every word that I speak, my focus is on the listener’s lifestyle and what occupies their time during the early afternoon hours,” says Lemley.
“Therefore, City Café’s playlist is bright and upbeat with occasional selections picked to add a little relaxation to their weekday. In essence, it’s classical music for modern life.”
In addition to his work on City Café, John Lemley is the anchor of CrimeOnline News Update, a daily newscast feature of Crime Stories with Nancy Grace on SiriusXM Satellite Radio. Lemley also anchors Momentum, an online TV news roundtable program for the city of Peachtree Corners, Georgia, that addresses topics impacting the greater metro-Atlanta area. Since 2015, he has also served as occasional news anchor for Atlanta radio stations WSTR (Star 94) and WYAY (News Radio 106.7).
As one of the largest PBS stations in the nation, Georgia Public Broadcasting (GPB Media), has been creating content worth sharing for over 60 years. With nine television stations, 19 radio stations and a multi-faceted digital presence, GPB strives to educate, entertain and enrich the lives of our viewers and listeners with programming that includes statewide radio news, current affairs, high school sports, educational resources for teachers and students and enlightening programs about our state like Hometown Georgia, Political Rewind and more.
