Dish cuts more jobs amid spectrum reshuffle

Dish Network already is spinning more heads than some companies do in an entire year. Among the revelations: More layoffs at Dish Network, affecting employees at its Colorado headquarters. Dish is transferring certain spectrum licenses to an EchoStar holding company. And the company has hired financial and legal advisors to evaluate “potential strategic alternatives.” The spectrum transactions are designed to “further unlock incremental strategic, financial and operating flexibility for its business following completion of its merger with Dish Network." Amid all of the financial and spectrum wrangling, Dish submitted a letter to the Colorado Department of Labor & Employment on January 8 informing of layoffs that will affect more than 150 people.