Changing channel with Cortana

I'm running into the issue where I say "Hey Cortana watch Nick Jr." or "Hey Cortana watch Disney Jr" and she recognizes the speech, but just says "try Watch tv". She does recognize "Hey Cortana watch ESPN". I've tried manually changing to these through
one guide and they're both favorites.

Cortana hears us a lot better, just won't change channels sadly.

It's August 2017 and Cortana still can't change the channels on my X1. She recognize what I say and actually displays it. Problem is she opens another channel than the one displayed. Baffling

Sorry no one helped you on this. I too have dish and use the hdmi pass through. One benefit is that you do not need to switch inputs, just apps. You can use cortana if you have a kinnect or if you are using your headset. Also this will show you what is trending
and you can change channels by voice or with the controller if you have a kinnect- just make sure that your dish receiver has line of site to the kinnect, mine bounces off a wall behind me and back to the receiver. You can just say, hey cortana watch tv. then
you can tell it to change to X channel, like watch history channel or whatever. Kinnect is probably one of the best features of this, but not switching inputs is nice too.

Hopefully this help

Turn her off and go back to using Xbox On, etc. as it's just simply 100 times than Cortana. You want to watch Sherlock Holmes and she goes off searching for "Shear Locks for Homes" "Is that correct". Pain in the hoop.

Had One S since Day One and tried to use Cortana but she is hopeless and who wants to sit with a headset on to change TV channels. Not the brightest idea and really poorly executed along with One S's hardware changes and particularly the moving on IR control
from Kinect to the console she is truly hopeless.

Maybe better is US (I'm Scottish) but I never have much problem using Xbox instead. You can turn Cortana off in Settings.

Also if using Kinect read this thread
One S does not change or control TV channels (Solution)

Good Luck

I will add a couple things.

As mentioned, channel changing does not work. For me, it is not a matter of sometimes not working, it never works.

"Hey Cortana, Watch CNN" It either does nothing or tries to Watch TV.

Second thing I noticed pertains to the One Guide. Certain channels that I want to add to my favourites in the one guide cannot actually be found in there. It skips over some for an unknown reason.

Thanks