In 1987, United Press International awarded WCVB "Best Sports Reporting" in the nation. For fourteen years, WCVB's Mike Lynch hosted the weekly New England Patriots show "Patriots Preview" and "Patriots All Access" with exclusive one on one sit down interviews with Bill Parcells, Pete Carroll and Bill Belichick. Until 2009, WCVB's sports department produced New England Patriots preseason games. These telecasts were also seen on sister station WMTW in Portland, Maine and WNAC-TV in Providence, Rhode Island. In addition, WCVB formerly preempted ABC programming to air all Patriots games that aired as part of "ESPN Sunday Night Football". Presently, this occurs during ESPN "Monday Night Football" Patriots game telecasts (ESPN is 20% owned by WCVB's corporate parent Hearst Communications; the station also carried any Patriots appearances on "Monday Night Football" when ABC held the rights to that package). WCVB was also the official station of Boston College Eagles football during Doug Flutie's historic 1984 season, that of which culminated with Flutie winning the Heisman Trophy.