Franchise
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Franchise may refer to:
Business and law
[edit]- Franchising, a business method that involves 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
- Cable franchise, a right to operate a cable television network
- Passenger rail franchising in Great Britain, a system of contracting out the operation of the passenger services on the railways of Great Britain
- Television franchise, a right to operate a television network
- Franchise, a clause used by insurance companies as a threshold for policy payments, as in deductible
- Franchise, political franchise, or suffrage, the civil right to vote
- Franchise jurisdiction, in English history, a jurisdiction held as private property
- Franchise Pictures, a film production company
Arts, entertainment, and media
[edit]- Media franchise, a collection of related creative works, such as films, video games, books, etc., particularly in North American usage
- "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
Sports
[edit]- 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 US 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.