AFCCE News & Events
May 17

2017 AFCCE Annual Meeting

One World Trade Center, New York City

This year’s AFCCE and AFCCE Scholarship Fund Annual Meetings will be held at One World Trade Center, New York from Thursday June 22nd through Saturday June 24th, 2017.

Our meeting will be hosted by:

The Durst Organization

Co-Owner of One World Trade Center and

Owner of Four Times Square

and Durst Broadcast, LLC

Click here for a PDF of this information and registration form or register online below

The receptions, business meetings, and banquet will all be held at One World Trade Center with tours of the Broadcasting Facilities there, as well as those at Four Times Square.  With many hotel options nearby we have not contracted with any particular hotel for a block of rooms.  Choose your own hotel to suit your interests:  near the theaters of the Times Square and Broadway locales, the sights and sounds of Lower Manhattan including the World Trade Center Memorial and Museum, the Statue of Liberty & Ellis Island and Wall Street and the historical district of Lower Manhattan, or your favorite neighborhood.

As the meeting and tours will be held in the Crossroads of the World, we suggest that attendees traveling to the city make travel arrangements through bookings.com, hotels.com, trivago.com, priceline.com, expedia.com, other consolidators, or though your favorite hotel affinity program.

Hotels near 1WTC include: Courtyard New York Downtown, Residence Inn Marriott NY Downtown, RIFF downtown, Holiday Inn Wall Street, The Wall Street Inn, The World Center Hotel.  In Times Square: the Hotel Edison has been offering great rates. Other hotels include the Marriott Marquis, The W hotel, The Hilton Times Square, the Hilton Garden Inn Times Square, The Millennium Broadway, The Knickerbocker, Casablanca (across the street from the Stephen Sondheim Theater with hit show Beautiful!)

For tickets to Broadway shows, great price tickets can be arranged through tkts.com

The registration deadline has passed.

Draft Agenda for the Annual Meeting

Thursday June 22nd

Opening Reception

63rd Floor One World Trade Center,
5:00–8:00 PM

Friday June 23rd

Continental Breakfast – 63rd Floor One World Trade Center,
8:00–9:00 AM

AFCCE Business Meeting Part I,
9:00 AM–Noon

Lunch,
Noon–1:00 PM

Tour of the Broadcast Facility at One World Trade Center,
1:00–3:00 PM

Reception – 63rd Floor One World Trade Center,
6:30–7:30 PM

Banquet – 63rd Floor One World Trade Center,
7:30–9:00 PM

Saturday June 24th

Continental Breakfast – 63rd Floor One World Trade Center,
8:00–9:00 AM

AFCCE Business Meeting Part II,
9:00 AM–Noon

Lunch,
Noon–1:00 PM

AFCCE Scholarship Fund Meeting,
1:00–3:00 PM

Tour of the Broadcast Facility at Four Times Square,
3:30–5:00 PM

Free Evening
Enjoy New York City at Night or attend a Broadway Show

Business Meetings and Lunches are for Members Only.  Banquet, Tours and all other activities listed above are open to Members and their guests.

 

Note: There are very easy subway connections between One World Trade Center and Four Times Square. One World Trade Center and Four Times Square are ADA compliant.  Please let us know if any attendees need wheelchair access in advance.

Registration

You can register for the Annual Meeting online below or by filling out the registration form and mailing a check to the address below. Please make your checks payable to AFCCE.

The meeting registration fee is $350 for AFCCE members, and $250 for each guest.  This registration fee includes the cost of the Thursday night welcome reception, continental breakfasts and mid-morning refreshments for the Friday and Saturday morning business meetings, the Friday night banquet, and Friday and Saturday lunches.  Please pay for your lodging directly to the hotel of your choice.

Click here for a PDF of this information and registration form.

If you have any questions, please feel free to contact:

John Lyons

AFCCE Vice President

The Durst Organization

One Bryant Park

NY, NY 10036

Cell: 646-208-9125 (business hours only please)

[email protected]

2 Comments

  1. Michael Rhodes
    Michael Rhodes
    June 24, 2017 at 11:39 am ·

    Attendees at the top of One World Trade Center

  2. Michael Rhodes
    Michael Rhodes
    June 26, 2017 at 4:20 pm ·

    News report (in Spanish) from Telemundo 47 on the station’s return to the World Trade Center.
    http://www.telemundo47.com/noticias/destacados/Telemundo-47-y-NBC-estrenan-transmisor-desde-el-World-Trade-Center-430351023.html