{"id":324535,"date":"2025-12-03T08:07:13","date_gmt":"2025-12-03T08:07:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/324535\/"},"modified":"2025-12-03T08:07:13","modified_gmt":"2025-12-03T08:07:13","slug":"remembering-one-of-radios-most-symbolic-pics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/324535\/","title":{"rendered":"Remembering one of radio’s most symbolic pics"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tL-R: Heidi Murphy, Patrina Jones, Adam Johnstone, Nikole Gunn, Rebecca Maddern. Front: Carrie Bickmore. Image credit: James Penlidis\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n

24 years ago today \u2013 when Nova 100 launched in Melbourne \u2013 photographer James Penlidis unwittingly captured what would become one of Australian radio\u2019s most symbolic images.<\/p>\n

A group of young women \u2013 all on the cusp of their radio journeys \u2013 and all of whom would go on to make their mark on the industry in the most extraordinary way.<\/p>\n

Tasked with setting up the Nova 100 newsroom from scratch, legendary radio journo Nikole \u2018Gunners\u2019 Gunn hired Carrie Bickmore, Patrina Jones, Rebecca Maddern, Heidi Murphy and Adam Johnstone\u00a0(all pictured in main photo) to fill the on-air roles.<\/p>\n

Within 18-months, this news team had won international recognition for a documentary on the Bali bombings.<\/p>\n

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Fast forward a quarter of a century and today, Bickmore is one of the most well-known faces in Australian television and radio.<\/p>\n

Beyond co-hosting the Hit Network\u2019s Carrie & Tommy show, Bickmore was recently named the 2025 Victorian Australian of the Year, having raised a phenomenal $27 million for brain cancer research over the past decade.<\/p>\n

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Patrina Jones \u2013 affectionately known to legion of listeners as \u2018Pats\u2019 \u2013 is today the co-host of Melbourne\u2019s #1 FM and soon-to-be-national Breakfast program The Christian O\u2019Connell Show.<\/p>\n

A multiple ACRA-winning journalist, she also hosts the Rage Against The Menopause podcast.<\/a><\/p>\n

Jones remembers the day the Nova group photo was taken.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe didn\u2019t know it at the time, but that photo really encapsulates what was a defining era of women in Australian media,\u201d she tells Radio Today.<\/p>\n

\u201cAll of these women have gone on to do sensational things and I am so incredibly proud to have witnessed their rise. I am happy to say they remain some of my dearest friends.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Rebecca Maddern went on to forge a hugely successful television career, now Chief Sports Presenter on Seven News Melbourne.<\/p>\n

In 2016, she made TV history, becoming the first female presenter of Channel Nine\u2019s The Footy Show.<\/p>\n

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A multi-Quill Award winning journalist, Heidi Murphy went on to become the Executive Producer of Neil Mitchell\u2019s top-rating talk program on Melbourne\u2019s 3AW, as well as being a regular fill-in host, Sunday morning co-host and a senior reporter at Channel Nine.<\/p>\n

Images: LinkedIn, X, SCA, James Penlidis and supplied.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"L-R: Heidi Murphy, Patrina Jones, Adam Johnstone, Nikole Gunn, Rebecca Maddern. Front: Carrie Bickmore. Image credit: James Penlidis…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":324536,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[64,63,134,136],"class_list":{"0":"post-324535","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-music"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324535","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=324535"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324535\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/324536"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=324535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=324535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=324535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}