Couldn't be more clear than this.
Good thinking, anon!
Found it!
When creating the statuette for the new Emmy, TV industry leaders felt it should be an outright, unabashed celebration of the wonder of electricity. Thus they endorsed the idea of having Oscar's kid sister — sporting lightning bolts for wings — hold up a giant electron so that all of us TV fans could lift up our gazes together and marvel at its mysterious majesty.
http:// goldderby.latimes.com/awards_goldderby/2006/04/what_does_emmy_.html