Towne Group helps dedicate new DMA Headquarters
| October 20, 2011. Ft. Meade, MD. Towne Group principals Anne and Charlie Towne took part Thursday morning in the formal dedication of the new Defense Media Activity (DMA) headquarters at Ft. Meade, MD. The DMA facility will serve as operations center for the Pentagon Channel and the American Forces Network, and the new home base for the broadcast professionals of the Towne Group, now numbering more than fifty, who have supported the Pentagon Channel since 2001. Towne Group staff produced the video “This is DMA” for the ribbon cutting ceremony, introducing the new DMA headquarters, which consolidates most of the media operations of the Department of Defense to the largest facility of its kind on the East coast. The building was dedicated by DMA Acting Director Melvin Russell, who praised the uniformed military, government civilian and contract professionals who work every day to create news, information and entertainment of interest to the men and women of the US military and their families worldwide. Mr. Russell also pointed out that the work of the DMA continues a long tradition reaching back to 1861 and the Civil War, when Union soldiersin Missouri decided to print a newspaper about their activities. They called the newspaper Stars and Stripes. Towne Group’s broadcast professionals are singularly proud to carry on this 150-year tradition. |
