The Miami Valley Channel (or MVC), known at various times as UPN 44 and UPN 17, was a local cable television channel based in Dayton, Ohio. MVC launched in September 1994 and ceased operations at the end of 2006. Owned and operated by Cox Enterprises, through its local CBS affiliate, WHIO-TV, the channel was available in the Miami Valley area of Ohio on Time Warner Cable and Time Warner's predecessor companies. The station was the Dayton area's UPN affiliate from October 1998 until the network ceased operations in September 2006.