Al Gore collected An Emmy Award For Current TV

Six months after grabbing Oscar glory for his eco-documentary “An Inconvenient Truth,” Al Gore has now collected an Emmy Award last night for his fledgling youth-oriented cable network, Current TV.

The cable network, launched in 2005 with video clips and other short programs made by viewers, last night received the “interactive television services” Emmy, a non-competitive award which was picked by a panel of the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences.

Al Gore said that “We are trying to open up the television medium so viewers can help to make television … and reclaim democracy,”

Current TV was converted from a defunct cable channel, Newsworld International that a Gore-led investor group purchased in 2004 from Vivendi Universal for a reported $70 million.

With an estimated reach of 50 million homes in the United States and Britain, Current TV is carried to subscribers through satellite service DirecTV and various cable systems.

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