RTA 1986 'Academy Awards' were held in the Ryerson Theatre (a first for the event). Awards became the TARAs in 1987.

The series consists of award ceremony programmes as well as background histories of donors.

1992 Awards Video: (approximately 40:00 minutes) Audio: inaudible. Visual: poor This may be because this video is a Super VHS and the Archives does not have a compatible machine to view tape.

1994 Award: 4 photographs

1998 Awards: Press Release and Program and poster; video: edited (approximately 46:52 minutes, commercial-free) version provided by Mark Bishop, Producer of the TARA Awards production April 16, 1998. Credit to the Ryerson Archives for archival footage used for this production, not appearing on the taped televised version (2 hrs) aired July 25, 1998 on CFMT, was added to the edited version.

1999 Video: 1 hour show, including commercials, aired June 19, 1999 on CFMT. This copy was taped by Archives staff.

2001: Mounted Poster:

2002: Program, posters

2003: Program, poster

2004: Videotape, poster, photographs

2005: Program

2006: Program, photographs on CD-R

2011: Program

This series contains the textual and audio visual records of the longstanding Children's Television Research project directed by Clive VanderBurgh and located within the school of Radio and Television Arts (RTA) between 1989-2003. The project is also referred to as CHIMP (Children's Media Project).