Franchise

Last updated September 04, 2025

Franchise may refer to:

Arts, entertainment, and media

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.