Jon Small is trading mediums.

You’ll literally be seeing a lot more of the former radio voice of the University of Maine women’s basketball team as Small has decided to make the jump from radio to television.

At least he won’t have to learn a new set of call letters. Small is going from WABI radio (910 AM) to WABI television (Channel 5).

Small has been with WABI radio since the current owner, Peter Orne Sr.’s Bangor Radio Corp., bought the station from Diversified Communications three years and eight months ago. After officially finishing his radio duties Friday, Small’s first day on the job as a full time anchor-reporter at WABI-TV is Monday.

“We’re just delighted to have a guy of his talent,” said WABI-TV news director Don Colson. “He’s a good guy and a local guy – which in my estimation is a strong factor in his favor.”

Colson said Small is filling a brand new position on his staff.

WABI Radio program director George Hale says he’ll miss Small and would like to have him come back to work some games on a freelance basis.

“If he’s available and his schedule permits it, I’d like to have him working basketball or other events for us,” said Hale, who finds himself looking for someone to replace Small as WABI’s news director.

“I think he’s one of the brighter young broadcasters in the area, and I think it’s a logical and good move for him at the right time,” Hale added.

Hale said he’d like to have Small’s vacancy filled by Labor Day, but only if he can find the right person and “the right fit” for the job by that time.

The Greater Portland television market gained a new station this month as Portland’s WPME-TV, better know as UPN 35 officially signed on Aug. 1.

The United Paramount Network affiliate is serving the area from Augusta to Sanford.

UPN35, which is owned by New England Television, Inc., is being managed by Fox Network affiliate WPXT-TV (FOX 51) in Portland through a local marketing agreement.

The LMA allows WPXT to program and sell advertising on WPME and works something like a leasing arrangement.

UPN35 will have a heavy sports programming emphasis and will take a lot of network sporting events which other Portland market stations are bypassing, such as NBC golf and volleyball coverage.

Organizers will have two more weeks to sell tickets in an effort to restore the Bristol Mills vestry.

The date of the drawing for a pair of box seats to the Boston Red Sox-New York Yankees game at Fenway Park Sept. 9, which were donated by New England Sports Network, has been extended to Aug. 28.

The date was pushed back because several tickets sold out of state weren’t turned in by the original deadline of Aug. 10.