Saturday marks the first home football game for Husson College in more than six decades, and those who can’t make it to the game will have a chance to see it on TV.

St. Croix Video Productions, a media production company previously located in Calais and now based in Bangor, will film the game and air it on a tape-delayed basis Tuesday night on Adelphia Cable access channel 12 in the Greater Bangor TV market.

“This is a trial project and if it works out, we’d like to do a couple of Husson football games, a girls soccer game, and women’s volleyball,” said Maurice Brown, co-owner of St. Croix Video Productions.

It could also extend into basketball coverage.

The broadcast resulted from a conversation Brown had with Husson basketball coach-media relations representative Warren Caruso two weeks ago.

“A lot of it depends upon how the first game goes,” said Caruso. “We still have a few logistics to work out but if everything goes well, we tentatively would like to do a 10-game package.”

Brown is operating on a limited budget, and having Adelphia partner up to air the games on its cable access channel means he can produce a game for a relatively low cost of about $400 to $500, all of which cover the cost of production and announcing. All action will be shot with one camera.

“We’re not WABI and we’re not going to pretend we are, but for a very low cost, I think we’re going to give them a very good product,” Brown said.

Hampden Academy athletic director Tom Winston will handle play-by-play and Hampden girls basketball coach Ben Greenlaw will be color analyst.

The game will also be aired live on radio by Husson station WHSN (89.3 FM).

The new guy

Bangor TV station WVII (Channel 7) has made a lineup change in the sports department. Summer intern Ted Lombardi has replaced Ryan Welch as a full-time sports reporter and backup anchor.

The 24-year-old Malden, Mass., native earned a broadcast journalism degree from Holy Cross and is one semester away from earning his master’s degree from Boston University, the same school that WVII sports director Nate Long earned his B.A from.

Long and Lombardi have another common bond. They both worked as reporters for Neighborhood Network News, a Boston public cable access channel.

Welch moved on to Portland’s WMTW (Ch. 8) last month to take a position as sports reporter and producer.

Lombardi had never spent much time in Maine before accepting the summer intern’s position in the sports department at WVII this summer.

“The story I always tell is I used to go to New Hampshire when I was a kid for Story Land, and once we got lost and ended up in Maine,” he said with a laugh. “And when I was singing in college, my college group sang at Colby once.”

The transition has been a smooth one for Lombardi, who has to commute from Boston to Bangor each week or two in order to satisfy his academic requirements at B.U.

“It’s someone we didn’t have to go over where schools are with and he’s familiar with all the equipment and everything from working here this summer,” Long said.

Lombardi has come to appreciate his new surroundings.

“I love it here. It reminds me a little of what I did in Boston for NNN,” Lombardi said. “When you’re starting out, everyone wants to do big-time sports like the Red Sox or Patriots, but I didn’t realize until I started doing it how much fun it is to cover high schools and local sports.”

NESN makes defining move

New England Sports Network and Comcast Cable are teaming up to air the rest of NESN’s Boston Red Sox telecasts and all of its Boston Bruins broadcasts in high definition television (HDTV).

The good news for sports viewers is the cutting-edge technology, which makes sports broadcasts even more clear and dramatic via a wide-screen picture that’s up to six times sharper than standard TV and is accompanied by Dolby Digital sound, is already available as it debuted with Monday’s Red Sox-Devil Rays telecast. The bad news is it’s only available on Comcast Cable, which does not provide service in the Portland, Augusta, Bangor or Presque Isle markets.

The only Maine areas currently serviced by Comcast are Eliot, Kittery, Portsmouth (N.H.) Naval Shipyard, and South Berwick. Cable subscribers in these towns who have an HDTV-ready TV set and an HDTV digital cable converter can get the HDTV upgrade by calling 1-800-COMCAST. The cost is an extra $2 per month and the broadcasts are available on channel 382.

Philadelphia-based Comcast owns the Philadelphia 76ers and Flyers, QVC, The Outdoor Life Network, and The Golf Channel.

Andrew Neff can be reached at 990-8205, 1-800-310-8600, or aneff@bangordailynews.net