A longtime staple on WLUK's daily schedule was reruns of the NBC drama "Little House on the Prairie"; the station was one of the few in the nation to count "Little House" towards its fulfillment of educational and informational content obligations for young audiences, citing in part the series' inspiration from the "Little House" children's book series authored by state native Laura Ingalls Wilder. "Little House" was dropped from WLUK's daily schedule in September 2013, in part to make room for new acquisition "Live!". For that year, it purchased syndicated E/I programming on a barter basis for weekend airings to fulfill E/I requirements, which was reduced to an hour in mid-September 2014 as WLUK took the Fox-offered E/I block "Xploration Station", which features two hours of compliant programming (as such, it was the first Fox affiliate owned-and/or-operated by Sinclair that carried the block, as the group's other Fox stations at the time carried E/I programs through existing contracts with syndicators of educational program content instead; the remainder of Sinclair's Fox-affiliated stations began carrying the "Xploration Station" block in September 2016).