^ This is really bad news for US fans since we've always been the "red-headed stepchild" of US sports coverage (no offence to red heads, I've had good relationships with a couple of them
).
I was overjoyed with Mother's sponsorship of ESPN coverage a few years ago with ad free races for the first time in the US. Come to find out the only reason we had US based F1 commentators was so they could cram commercials into the British broadcast!