Most consumer electronic devices, including 2.45 GHz WLAN, terrestric and sat-TV tuners are using standard PCB substrates,
mostly FR4. For obvious reasons, assembly technique is SMT.
If you have the opportunity to take a close look at an old TV tuner or other UHF device, you'll see that they use throughole
assembly technique, if they are 20 (possibly) or 30 (more likely) years old. It obviously works. But you have to calculate
series inductances for each component, that are considerably higher than with SMD. That's why designing SMT is much easier.