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A television documentary production house founded by Michael Willesee in the mid-1980s, Trans Media Productions has co-produced a number of programs in association with Film Australia and Roadshow Coot and Carroll. These productions include: Having a Go (1983), directed by Gillian Armstrong (q.v.), Sink or Swim (1985), Willesee's Australians (1987-1988), Streets of New York (n. yr), The Last Warriors (2000) and Who Killed Sally-Anne? (2000).

Trans Media Productions has also produced a number of documentaries focusing on religious themes - notably: A Plea to Humanity (1999), Signs from God, Science, Tests Faith (1999, watched by over 29 million people in the USA alone), The Eucharist: In Communion with Me (2003, shown on the USA religious channel EWTN and in numerous countries worldwide), and Thapelo: A Prayer for Africa (2002). This shift towards religious subjects coincided with Willesee's return to the Catholic faith, a process accelerated by a plane crash he experienced in Kenya in 1998.

In 1991 the company purchased radio stations 4CA Cairns, 4TO Townsville and 4MK Mackay. This North Queensland network was sold in 1995.