Bob and Esther Kellum, along with Burundian preachers, began communications with the government in February to get a franchise, which was granted in September 1963.
An American organisation by the name of Voice of Hope Radio aims to continue such broadcasts to Central Africa, provided they have sufficient funds to do so.
[4] Radio Cordac was sponsored by World Gospel Mission, Kansas Society of Friends and the Free Methodists.
The radio station operated a four-year training program for African students from its property in Bujumbura, Burundi.
[6] In a public address, given around 1975 by Corrie ten Boom, the renowned Dutch World War Two prison camp survivor and Christian speaker, said that she had visited and worked at the radio station in Bujumbura and was pleased to hear that it had reopened again, broadcasting 24 hours a day, after being closed down for two years as a result of changing political policy.