Maybe because of where I live, where the freeview service does not include many commercial channels, so nearly everyone has a dish, I know mine has 6 outputs, being a hybrid 2 to Sky Q and 4 for standard satellite receivers, I am not using 2 at the moment, so there is already a dish and LNB, and since at side of house easy to run cables without having to go on roof or in loft.
So 11 National BBC programs, then the local programs, and unlike freeview or DAB I can if I wish listen to BBC radio Scotland, even when I live in Wales, never counted them all but likely looking at 200 programs. So at home there seems to be no point in freeview or DAB as all covered by satellite, but once one goes mobile that is no longer true, we need a rather directional dish for satellite and we need in the car, bike or walking a non directional aerial.
So now frequency matters, and the lower we go the more likely it will travel long distances, and so we don't need 1000's of broadcast stations likely the MW is about best, but we already have FM on VHF and to stop the volume problem with AM we need FM so yes for speech AM is OK, and with a BFO even side band, but I have tried working side band VHF when mobile and not really a success, Sizewell where I worked to Cambridge at 30 watt was not bad really, but don't really want to listen to Donald duck.
So in real terms it seems VHF FM wide band is about the best option. It uses more band width to DAB, and the transmitter needs to be bigger, but the receiver uses far less power, so with a simple PP9 battery the radio will work for months, and if mobile this is important, so we can even have a wind up radio
the DAB radio is too power hungry, not seen any wind up versions, and the battery radio may be available but this one
it says "Rechargeable battery provides up to 10 hours of listening" I think that is rather poor, even my pocket transceiver lasts more than that.
