Twenty-one months after coming back to his home state, Evans Boston is going home.

The sports director for Bangor television station WVII (Channel 7) will host ABC-7’s Friday Night Sports Blitz for the final time tonight and drive two hours south for his first day on the job at Portland’s WGME (Ch. 13) Saturday.

“Yeah, it’s a busy weekend for me,” said the 27-year-old York native.

Busy but exciting.

“I know it sounds like a clich?, but this is a dream come true for me,” said Boston, whose wife Maureen is also from York. “When I graduated from college, my goal was to get to Portland because that’s where I’m from.

“That was the ultimate goal when I came here to Bangor and it couldn’t have worked out any better for me.”

Boston replaces Adam Pellerin, who is taking a new job at Fox 25 in Boston.

No replacement has been named yet for Boston.

“We’re really sorry to see him go. He did a great job for us,” said WVII operations manager George Thomas. “We don’t have anyone in line to replace him yet. Obviously we’d like to have a replacement named as soon as possible. We’re doing interviews and talking to people, but in the interim, our No. 2 sports guy, Brian Sullivan, will be filling in.”

Sullivan started in the sports department early this summer after working as an intern at WVII.

After graduating from Syracuse in 2003, Boston worked in Dalton, Ga., the following year before moving to a sports anchor job in Zanesville, Ohio. From there, he came to Bangor.

NESN’s series a Maine event

Thanks to a joint venture between the Eastern College Athletic Conference and New England Sports Network, the University of Maine football team will see some more TV time this fall.

Former University of Maine men’s basketball coach and current ECAC commissioner Rudy Keeling has announced a partnership with NESN that will launch a “Game of the Week” series as part of the NESN University Football Saturday package.

The season-long package will feature seven games from the Ivy League, New England Small College Athletic Conference, and Colonial Athletic Association, including Maine at New Hampshire on Nov. 17.

In yet another Maine twist, the broadcasting team for this venture includes former New England Patriot linebacker Steve DeOssie, Paul Souza, and Eric Frede, former sports director at WVII.

The series kicks off Saturday with the 12:30 p.m. Dartmouth at Yale game and concludes with Maine at New Hampshire at noon on Nov. 17.

Mainers getting TBS in HD

Time Warner cable New England division spokesperson Peter DeWitt has some good news for central and northern Maine customers, and it’s just in time for the Major League Baseball playoff broadcasts. Time Warner cable subscribers in the Bangor and Presque Isle markets will be receiving Atlanta super station WTBS in high definition later this week if they haven’t already. Bangor-area customers will get TBS HD on channel 780 and Presque Isle subscribers will get it on channel 558. Now viewers can really see the seams on the fastball.

What’s in a name?

For the fifth time in its 27-year history, Fox Sports Net New England has changed its name.

As of Monday, FSNNE became known officially as Comcast SportsNet. The regional sports network debuted as PRISM/New England in 1981, relaunched itself as SportsChannel New England in 1983, changed its name to Fox Sports New England in 1998, then tweaked it further to FSNNE in 1999.