Franchise may refer to:
Arts, entertainment, and media
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Media franchise
A media franchise, also known as a multimedia franchise, is a collection of related media in which several derivative works have been produced from an original creative work of fiction, such as a film, a work of literature, a television program, o ...
, a collection of related creative works, such as films, video games, books, etc., particularly in North American usage
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"Franchise" (short story), a 1955 short story by Isaac Asimov
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Dem Franchize Boyz
Dem Franchize Boyz was an American hip hop music, hip hop group from Atlanta, Georgia, Atlanta, signed to E1 Music. The group had four members: Parlae (born Maurice Gleaton), Pimpin' (Jamal Willingham), Jizzal Man (Bernard Leverette), and Buddie ...
, an American hip hop group from Atlanta
* ''
Franchise Times'', a business magazine for franchises in the United States
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"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
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Franchise Pictures, a film production company
Business
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Franchising
Franchising is based on a marketing concept which can be adopted by an organization as a strategy for business expansion. Where implemented, a franchisor licenses some or all of its know-how, procedures, intellectual property, use of its busines ...
, 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
A television broadcaster or television network is a telecommunications network for the distribution of television show, television content, where a central operation provides programming to many television stations, pay television providers or ...
*** Cable franchise, a right to operate a
cable television
Cable television is a system of delivering television programming to consumers via radio frequency (RF) signals transmitted through coaxial cables, or in more recent systems, light pulses through fibre-optic cables. This contrasts with bro ...
network
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Cable television franchise fee, an annual fee charged by a local government to a private cable television company
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Passenger rail franchising in Great Britain
Passenger rail franchising in Great Britain was the system of contracting the operation of the passenger rail, passenger services on the Rail transport in Great Britain, railways of Great Britain to private companies, which was in effect from 1 ...
, a system of contracting out the operation of the passenger services on the railways of Great Britain
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Franchise deductible, a kind of damage amount threshold in an insurance contract
Politics and law
* Franchise, political franchise, or
suffrage
Suffrage, political franchise, or simply franchise is the right to vote in public, political elections and referendums (although the term is sometimes used for any right to vote). In some languages, and occasionally in English, the right to v ...
, the right to vote an election or a referendum
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Franchise jurisdiction, in English history, a jurisdiction held as private property
Sports
* 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
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Franchise player, a player on such a team around whom an entire competitive squad can be built
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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
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Sports league
A sports league is a group of individual athletes, sports teams or clubs who form a league to compete against each other and gain points in a specific sport. At its simplest, it may be a local group of amateur athletes who form teams among them ...
franchise, or League franchise, a local or regional business franchising operation under a particular sporting league in activities such as pool, darts, etc.
See also
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The Franchise (disambiguation)
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