Los Angeles - Former Vice President Al Gore appeared on stage at the Emmy Awards on Sunday to collect an Emmy for interactive television services for his Current TV network, the youth-oriented channel that highlights user-generated videos.

Current TV won in a non-competitive category picked by a special panel of the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences.

The network's programming, which is available in about 50 million homes in the U.S. and the U.K., is about one-quarter user-generated.

Current TV was launched in 2005, after Gore and other investors paid a reported $70 million to Vivendi Universal to acquire the defunct Newsworld International cable network.

Gore also won an Academy Award for his documentary film "An Inconvenient Truth" in February.

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