On January 4, 1982, the station premiered two music and dance-based programs for its weekday late afternoon schedule. The first program, "TMC 43"—"TMC" standing for "Top Music Channel"—was a two-hour-long program (airing from 4:00 to 6:00 p.m.) that featured amateur dancers performing to popular music as well as showcasing music videos from top artists. Hosted by local personality Les "Boogie Man" Michaels (who would later serve as a disc jockey at Enid radio station KOFM FM), the first episode of the program—which replaced a feature film presentation that had been airing in that slot since the dissolution of the "TV-43 Newswatch" format—had only 12 dancers. That number would sharply increase to 117 by the end of the week; by the following Friday, more than 300 local teens were dancing in two large soundstages at KAUT's now-former Eastern Avenue facility. Shortly afterwards, the show began issuing tickets to some of the more popular dancers (such as Marty Melton, Tanya Eli and Robyn Church), with all dancers being required to bring a date to show tapings. Its lead-out program, "Oklahoma Country Live", was an hour-long country music dance show hosted by Wade Carter (then the music director at KXXY-FM [96.1]) that was broadcast from the Spurs nightclub, located on 25th Street (near South Prospect Avenue and Interstate 35) in southeast Oklahoma City. (The building now houses the Latin nightclub El 2002.) With adequate viewership failing to materialize, both shows were canceled by that fall after eight-month runs. In the case of "TMC 43", mothers picketed at KAUT's Eastern Avenue studio to keep the show on the air, with the spokeswoman for the picketers, Carolyn Pierce, pointing out the show's contribution to the local community by keeping teens off of the street. The final "TMC 43" broadcast—airing on September 17, 1982, the same day "Oklahoma Country Live" aired its final episode—hosted around 250 teens as Michaels read letters from heartbroken teens and parents.