International Emmys Founders Award to Al Gore

NEW YORK, March 26: Former
U.S. Vice President Al Gore will be presented with the 2007 International Emmy
Founders Award at the 35th International Emmy Awards Gala on November 19 in New
York City.

This award, announced by
Academy president & CEO, Bruce L. Paisner, recognizes Gore’s role in
launching the cable and satellite channel Current TV and his ongoing efforts to
alert the world to one of the great challenges of our time, global warming.

“The Academy presents the
Founders Award to an individual or organization which crosses cultural
boundaries to touch our common humanity—how perfect a definition for Al
Gore,” said Paisner. “We in the media industry are honored that one of the
world’s leading political figures has joined our global community of
broadcasters."

“It is an honor to be
recognized by the International Academy of Television Arts & Sciences,
which, like Current TV, strives to create a global conversation through the
powerful medium of television,” said Gore, the chairman of Current TV.

As U.S. Vice President
from 1993 to 2000, Gore led Administration policies on telecommunications and
actively championed causes such as the environment and the growth of the
Internet. In August 2005, he co-founded Current TV, the first TV network
created by, for and with young adults.

Gore is also the author of
An Inconvenient Truth, the
best-selling book on the threat of and solutions to global warming, and the
subject of a documentary film of the same title, which won two Academy Awards.