Because you don’t pay on a per channel basis. You also didn’t see a huge price increase that took place shortly thereafter with every other provider. You saw a small price increase with the option to actually lower your price. That was about the same time they broke the RSN fee out separately and you can clearly see you weren’t charged for them there, as well. False equivalency.
They had to break out the RSN fee, precisely because so many regions now don't have RSN's on Dish. They added a
very small monthly fee to the few regions that still had RSN's. (That fee was apparently reversed this year, due to even more RSN removals.) That tiny fee is/was nowhere near enough to cover the entire cost of each region's RSN's where the fee was being charged. It may not have even been enough to entirely cover that year's scheduled price increase for the RSN's that were still being carried. So, the
bulk of the cost of the RSN's was still being bundled into the base packages, which are the same price nationwide, whether you are actually receiving your RSN's or not. The
entire RSN fee was
never broken out, nor did customers with any package other than Flex Pack
ever have the option to completely remove RSN's from their core package to save money. The price of RSN's (whether they are carried or not) is still being averaged out across the entire country, with the bulk of subscribers not even receiving them, but still paying anyway.
