Franchise

Franchise may refer to:

• Media franchise, a grouping of comparable creative works, especially in North American usage, including movies, video games, books, etc.
• "Franchise" (short story), a 1955 short story by Isaac Asimov
• Dem Franchize Boyz, an American hip-hop group from Atlanta
• Franchise Times, a business magazine for franchises in the United States
• "Franchise" (song), a 2020 song by Travis Scott
• Franchise: The Golden Arches in Black America, a 2020 book by Marcia Chatelain that won the Pulitzer Prize for History
• Franchise Pictures, a film production company

• Franchising, a business strategy that includes licensing of trademarks and methods of doing business to franchisees
• Franchise, a privilege to operate a type of business such as a cable television provider, public utility, or taxicab company, sometimes requiring the filing of tariff schedules, as in:
  • Television franchise, a right to operate a television network
    • Cable franchise, a right to operate a cable television network
      • Cable television franchise fee, an annual fee charged by a local government to a private cable television company
  • Passenger rail franchising in Great Britain, a system of contracting out the operation of the passenger services on the railways of Great Britain
• Franchise deductible, a kind of damage amount threshold in an insurance contract

• Franchise, political franchise, or suffrage, the right to vote an election or a referendum
• Franchise jurisdiction, in English history, a jurisdiction held as private property

• Franchise, a term for a team in the type of professional sports league organization most commonly found in North America; see North American professional sports league organization
  • Franchise player, a player on such a team around whom an entire competitive squad can be built
  • Franchise tag, a designation of a player in the American National Football League whose contract is soon to expire that binds them to the team for one year at an enhanced salary
• Sports league franchise, or League franchise, a local or regional business franchising operation under a particular sporting league in activities such as pool, darts, etc.