- Jake Dexter has joined Range Sports, the sports division of Range Media Partners, as VP of Sports Content in a newly created role, coming directly from Paradigm Talent Agency where he was a founding member of the Paradigm Sports Group.
- In the new role, Dexter will represent unscripted sports production companies and showrunners, while collaborating with Range's media rights team and Range Studios' non-scripted TV division.
- At Paradigm, Dexter's deal sheet included packaging the Jake Paul vs. Mike Tyson boxing event on Netflix, negotiating Savannah Bananas media rights deals with The CW and TNT Sports, and selling the Imagine Dragons documentary Believer to HBO and the Shawn Mendes documentary Wonder to Netflix.
- Range Sports has been aggressively expanding its content infrastructure, with Dexter's hire following a broader 2026 signing wave that includes Brandon Liebman joining Range from UTA on the Film/TV side.
Jake Dexter has landed at Range Media Partners, taking on the newly created role of Vice President of Sports Content within Range Sports.
Dexter makes the move from Paradigm Talent Agency, where he started in the mailroom and rose to become a founding member of the Paradigm Sports Group, spending over a decade there building one of the most impressive sports-meets-entertainment deal sheets in the business.
His track record speaks for itself. Dexter was instrumental in packaging and selling The Masked Singer to Fox, brokering the Jake Paul vs. Mike Tyson boxing event on Netflix, and locking in media rights deals for the Savannah Bananas with The CW and TNT Sports.
On the music documentary side, he packaged the Shawn Mendes doc Wonder for Netflix and the Billie Eilish documentary with RJ Culter for Apple. Most recently, prior to departing Paradigm, he was named as a key agent on Anderson Silva‘s signing with Paradigm for film and TV representation.
At Range Sports, Dexter will represent unscripted sports production companies and showrunners and work alongside Range’s media rights and non-scripted TV teams in a first-of-its-kind sports content division.
This hire is part of Range’s wider 2026 expansion push, which has seen a string of high-profile moves, including Brandon Liebman arriving from UTA to bolster the Film/TV division.
Takeaways
Range Sports isn’t just building a sports agency, it’s building a full content ecosystem, and Dexter is the clearest sign yet of how serious that ambition is.
Creating a brand-new VP of Sports Content role specifically for him tells the market that Range sees unscripted sports content as a standalone business, not an afterthought.
Dexter’s arrival bridges two worlds that have long been awkward neighbors: sports rights and entertainment packaging. Very few people have worked both sides the way he has, selling league media rights deals and documentary packages to streamers in the same career. That’s rare currency right now as every major platform is racing to own live sports and sports storytelling.
For Paradigm, losing a founding member of its Sports Group, someone who was the agent of record on major Netflix events and Fox packaging deals, is a notable gap. The agency will need to backfill real institutional knowledge, not just a title.
With Dexter now building Range Sports’ content arm, could his former clients from the Savannah Bananas to Jalen Rose’s Page Entertainment eventually follow him to Range? Does this signal that Range Sports is positioning itself to compete directly with larger agencies like CAA and WME on unscripted sports content deals?
