Ok, let a former washed up radio guy weigh in here, for what it's worth.
Doing a weekly radio show and keeping it at A+ level is impossible. Keeping it at B+ level is possible, but a grind and a total bitch. Been there, dont that, got the worn out Tshirt.
I think be it twice a month or once a month you would lose audience more so. There is a logical answer. Remember the old McCloud-Columbo-McMillan&Wife thing? Alternate every two weeks with another show or another series of hosts. Keeps the audience, keeps the time slot open, offers variety, yadda yadda.
I also agree, you need guests and topics. It may also have been (sorry, giving you all my feedback) a mistake "branding" the show with the Oprano name. Lots of times shows with their own "name" but associated with a resource works. Branding it often tells people who are not a part of that board or that resource that they are not wanted.
Further .... ok, you wanted feedback, here it comes .... the fact that the radio show is not marketed elsewhere, of course you're going to get only 20 people! Hello?? You and Gonzo are excellent marketing people! But you guys and AEBN's total lack of marketing is ultimately to blame. You guys know that the adage "build it and they will come" is the biggest piece of dung phrase ever said, but for some reason in this particular case, it seems you've fallen for it.
Get out there and push!! Get the guests, do your homework, make up the questions, do your research, plan the sucker, then promote the living piss out of it. And if it's too much work to do it right, then hang it up.
And I only tell you the unvarnished truth here because I respect you and I know you can handle it.
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