You’re under no obligation yet to adjust your TV settings, radio buttons or Twitter handles just because the Rams, by all recent accounts, are putting together a comeback tour in L.A.

What’s next is as much going on practical logistics as problematic speculations.

So if you’d like to play along, here’s what we don’t know, and really don’t know yet and what we wouldn’t mind see happen before this fall:

A direct angle to DirecTV?

The skeptic suggests that one of the reasons the NFL was so bent on getting a team back to Los Angeles sooner rather than later — and all the better if the team wasn’t one of the league’s elites — is that it will undoubtedly drive up the purchases of DirecTV’s “NFL Sunday Ticket” package.

Those living in this TV market who have no interest in watching the struggling, carpetbagging Rams play every Sunday would gladly pay their way out of the rules that insist the local team’s games take precedence over anything else on Fox or CBS.

Way back when, this wasn’t much part of the equation. In the 1990s, L.A. NFL fans were more frazzled by TV blackout regulations, wondering how the Rams or Raiders sellout (or lack thereof) would affect which game was shown.

That rule went away in 2015, and is likely to remain a non-factor moving forward. So the next thing to consider in the weekly conundrum is how the Rams, with every game piped into L.A., throw a wrench into the get-the-best-contest arrangement that’s been here for the last two decades.

Actually, even that has come with some string attached, since the San Diego’s Chargers claimed this as a secondary TV territory, force-feeding their games to L.A. often at the expense of much better matchups. At least a couple times a year, a 10 a.m. game would run long, go into overtime, and then get cut off and abandoned because the Chargers’ contract forcing KCBS-Channel 2 to pick up the 1:25 p.m. kickoff was enforced.

Substitute the Rams into that equation, and perhaps the Chargers as well, whether or not they decide to make L.A. a two-team parlay again. The NFL may promise L.A. more flexibility with network doubleheaders, but that could be an issue if the Rams feel they’re not getting proper exposure protection.

How times have changed

In 1994, when the Rams were in their final season at Anaheim Stadium and the Raiders were wrapping things up at the Coliseum, DirecTV’s “NFL Sunday Ticket” was just an infant, born just months after El Segundo-based DirecTV itself was created with just over 300,000 subscribers.

Today, the satellite company has more than 20 million on board — even if some in L.A. have dropped it in order to take Time Warner Cable for its access to the Dodgers’ SportsNet L.A. and the Pac-12 Network.

“Los Angeles is home to many displaced fans who are ‘NFL Sunday Ticket’ customers,” said a DirecTV spokesman. “We expect the Rams’ return to generate even more interest in professional football, which is great for the city and the sport. Customers in St. Louis with ‘NFL Sunday Ticket’ can continue to watch every out-of-market game, every Sunday.”

If they can make that kind of investment, that is. Last week, DirecTV announced it was raising the price of “NFL Sunday Ticket” by 2.4 percent, to $257.94 for the basic plan and up 1.7 percent to $359.94 for the “Max Plan” (which includes the Red Zone Channel, the Fantasy channel and mobile access). It also has limits to games that only are shown on Fox and CBS — last season, Yahoo! streamed a Buffalo-Jacksonville game from London that DirecTV could not access. For 2016, the NFL is considering selling streaming-rights only to the three league games in London, one of which is the Rams facing the New York Giants.

Fox’s first season of NFL coverage was also in 1994, so it had only one year of the Rams’ NFC rights in L.A., having outbid CBS for that package, and leaving CBS with the AFC.

Whatever the situation, an NFL team in Los Angeles creates more value in the TV contracts that add up to about $5 billion per year from Fox, CBS, NBC and ESPN (the three network deals go through 2022; ESPN’s deal expires in 2021).

A compromise in the current three-game Sunday (plus NBC’s Sunday night and ESPN’s Monday night) wouldn’t go over well for L.A.-based NFL viewers.

“Generally, it’s a positive for the league to be in the second-largest TV market,” said CBS Sports chief Sean McManus. “In some ways it’s advantageous to CBS if there is an AFC team, so we are in a wait-and-see situation.”

An FM suggestion

The Rams are going to need to find a radio home. Why not break through the mentality that it has to be a strictly AM base and do more on the FM side?

All-sports stations KLAC-AM (570), KSPN-AM (710) and even KLAA-AM (830) have contractual hurdles already for doing games involving the Dodgers, Angels, Lakers, Ducks, USC and UCLA that could affect a Rams’ broadcast. KLAC has also been the L.A. base for Chargers games in recent years and has the ability to farm games out to sister station KEIB-AM (1150).

This AM landscape is something the Clippers are currently mulling over as they likely seek a new radio home in the wake of the sale of KFWB-AM (980).

KABC-AM (790), which carries the Kings this season, or KFI-AM (640) could be credible options for the Rams. But consider instead the opportunities to hook up with a KLOS-FM-type rock music station where the demographics are already in place and the quality of the game broadcast would be much more rich with the stereo presentation.

The St. Louis Rams have been broadcasting locally on WXOS-FM, with Steve Savard and D’Marco Farr calling the games. Seattle (KIRO-FM), Arizona (KTAR-FM) and San Francisco (KIRO-FM) are the other NFC West with FM muscle. More NFL teams than not have an FM presence.

“Stan Kroenke certainly has enough money to buy a station, but there’s no way you can program Rams-centric 24/7,” said Paul Olden, the Rams’ play-by-play radio man for the 1991 and ’92 seasons when they were KMPC-AM (710), currently the public address announcer at Yankee Stadium.

“You gotta be on FM since we are used to hearing the sounds of the game directly from the field as we hear on TV. Of course, finding a suitable outlet there in L.A. will be a challenge if you’re looking for companion team-related programming.”

“If I were Kroenke, I’d find the modern answer to Gene Autry’s KMPC,” said Dick Enberg, the voice of the Rams from 1966-77 when he was also doing Angels and UCLA broadcasts.

A local TV partner

When the Rams games are on ESPN’s “Monday Night Football” or the NFL Network’s “Thursday Night Football” package, a local over-the-air station always simulcasts the game, acknowledging not everyone is cable-accessible (strange as it may seem).

The usual suspects here: KCOP-Channel 13, KDOC-Channel 56, KTLA-Channel 5 or the CBS-owned KCAL-Channel 9. It would also be the station that carries up to four exhibition games and supplies the broadcasters.

Interestingly, the Los Angeles Rams were the first NFL team to ever televise all home and road games in 1950, but home attendance suffered so much (there was also competition from the All-American Football League’s L.A. Dons) that the team instituted its own blackout policy and did only road games in 1951. Even the Rams’ 1951 NFL Championship Game win over Cleveland at the Coliseum, televised coast-to-coast on the DuMont Network, was blacked out in L.A.

Sixty-plus years later, as long as there’s money to be lost, the blackout will always be in the playbook.

MEASURING MEDIA MOMENTUM

WHAT SMOKES

• Jessica Mendoza’s performance on a month’s worth of ESPN “Sunday Night Baseball” games, including the network’s coverage of the AL wild-card game, convinced John Wildhack to sign her on for the 2016 coverage. “She seized the moment,” ESPN’s executive vice president for programming and production said of the former Camarillo High All-American who lives in Moorpark. Mendoza will be a booth analyst with Aaron Boone, as Dan Shulman stays on play-by-play. Both Mendoza and Boone did work on ESPN’s “Monday Night Baseball” package with producer Andy Reichwald, and the three of them will be together again on this Sunday team. “If this team establishes themselves as we hope and we think they can, it will be terrific for us, terrific for ‘Sunday Night Baseball’ and terrific for the sport,” Wildhack told the Associated Press.

WHAT CHOKES

• ESPN confirmed Friday that NFL reporter Chris Mortensen, who joined the network in 1991, will take a leave to begin treatment for Stage IV throat cancer. The 64-year-old Torrance native and a longtime Dodgers reporter for the Daily Breeze before he covered the NFL said he was diagnosed more than a week ago and “I have many inspirational examples of men, women and children who have faced this very fight. We all know somebody, right? I have peace about this about look forward to the battle.” Mortensen has covered every Super Bowl since 1979.

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