As a PBS station, much of KAUT/KTLC's programming consisted of same-day rebroadcasts of programs featured on the OETA network, alongside some programs from American Public Television and other syndicators that channel 43 had granted the exclusive local broadcast rights via OETA. The station's initial format as a PBS member featured instructional, informational and fitness programs (such as "Body Electric", "Homestretch", "A.M. Weather" and "Sit and Be Fit") each weekday from 7:00 to 10:00 a.m. and 12:00 to 1:00 p.m., and instructional programs and select PBS news, science and documentary series (including among others, "The MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour" retitled "The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer" in 1995, which, until 1993, originally aired on a one-hour delay from its initial OETA early evening broadcast) from 9:00 p.m. until sign-off. Afternoons and late evenings on Saturdays and Sundays as well as Sunday mornings featured discussion series (such as "Tony Brown's Journal" and "Firing Line") and instructional programs for high school and college credit; weekends in prime time featured mostly repeats of PBS arts and documentary programs that were first aired on OETA during the previous week. The majority of its lineup, however, consisted of children's programming sourced from PBS and other distributors. Atypical of most PBS stations (which usually only air such programs during the daytime hours), children's shows made up the bulk of the station's weekday schedule from mid-morning to early evening, with occasional breakaways for PBS programming aimed at older audiences. In what would become a gradual expansion of its children's program offerings, in December 1991, the station began carrying shows aimed at a preschooler to preteen audience (such as "Reading Rainbow", "Shining Time Station", "Long Ago and Far Away" and "Degrassi Junior High") between 8:00 a.m. and 2:00 p.m. on Sundays.