• Financial Times, Friday, October 6, 2006 12:15 PM

Former Vice President Al Gore will bring his user-generated content TV channel to the United Kingdom, courtesy of James Murdoch's British Sky Broadcasting. Gore launched Current TV, a channel made of clips created by viewers and producers, in August 2005. He said that the channel was "democratizing television."

Murdoch--who claims that BSkyB was the first media company in the world to go carbon neutral--and Gore share a passion for the environment. Murdoch has also urged News Corp. officials to follow his son James' lead and tackle climate change issues. Current TV's agreement for the channel to be carried on BSkyB's satellite platform is its first international move outside the U.S. Gore says the channel broke even in its first year, and expects to turn a profit in this one. The deal with BSkyB will bring Current TV to 8 million homes in the U.K.--on top of the nearly 30 million here.

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