Erik Huggers appointed BBC’s director of future media and technology

Ashley Highfield has been replaced at the BBC by Erik Huggers, while in the new role as director of future media and technology he will have to shape an important part of the BBC.

Huggers will be responsible for directing mobile, interactive TV and Internet based BBC content. Looking at what he did with the launch of the BBC iPlayer, it will be interesting to see what Huggers does will other new emerging platforms.

The future of content distribution will be on mobile platforms, the Internet and interactive TV. So what decisions Huggers makes will have a major impact on the future of the BBC.

Huggers CV is pretty impressive, before he was at the BBC he was responsible for Windows Media in Europe, launching the MSN portal in the Benelux countries and other innovation.

The Financial Times has said that the first major task for Erik Huggers will be to solve the row between internet service providers and the BBC, ISP’s are asking for compensation because of the load iPlayer puts on their systems.