Same thing happening here. Keywords don’t really work for me and trying to delete them caused all channels to appear in my collections.
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I always considered Jerry spring a pro wresting show. 
OK,
Please show me some example rules you have for your channels so I can try to repro.
@maddox here you go. Im not using any keywords yet but I did try it on a new collection and it didn't really work right. So then I just left it alone and then I noticed that all of my other collections were messed up. I deleted the test collection to see if things would go back to normal for my existing collections, but it looks like they are showing every channel from all sources. However, the excluded sources are being honored.
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OK should be resolved in the latest TestFlight beta
Any confirmations?
Just checked and works great!
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Thanks. I can't test it yet as I only have a Shield, but hopefully I will get a chance soon.
Available on android:
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For the genres you are able to combine multiple genres (for example Game Shows and Mysteries) and both will show up on the list. Why doesn't it work that way for keywords? I was hoping that the keyword would add to the list of programs under the genre selected instead of filtering them out.
Also, I notice that the keyword only works if you choose one of TV Shows, Movies or Sports. Choosing Everything does not work.
It’s supposed to work for any of them.
I’ll check out these issues soon.
OK, there's a fix coming with the next iOS/tvOS TestFlight beta.
It's important to know that these rules are all ANDed together. So, a channel's current airing needs to match all of the rules you have inputted. The exception is that they can match ANY of the options you pass in.
For example: You can have selected Movies and Genres: ["Action", "Adventure"]. Channel airings HAVE to both be a movie, and match 1 of the genres you've chosen. It can match action OR adventure, but it has to match ONE of them.
The same thing goes for keywords. You can add multiple keywords to grab a channel, but the channels have to match at least 1 of the keywords.
This should be resolved as well.
Thanks for clarifying this, but can you explain how these keywords are generated or where they come from? I tried adding "NFL" as a keyword to capture both NFL games and related sports talk shows (e.g., "Good Morning Football" on NFL Network) but that doesn't seem to work despite "Good Morning Football" having "NFL" multiple times in its show description.
Right now the keyword filter only matches "TechCheck" on CNBC which is completely off, and I can't really figure out why it's a match.
Keywords are literally just characters found in the show title, episode title, event title, or summary.
So it’s just a cheap search.
Have you tried with the latest tvOS beta?
@maddox for keyword filters, is there any way we could have it match full words only? An “NFL” keyword matched for a Bizarre Foods America episode in the last hour, I think because the description reads “Andrew tastes the cultural influences…”
Weirdly, Good Morning Football isn’t included as a match even though “NFL” is in its episode description as well.
As a workaround, I was able to get rid of the irrelevant non-NFL programs by setting genre filters “Football” and “Sports talk”.
Yeah, it's tough. On one hand, it's sort of a really edge case with that kind of "word" but also, a normal keyword for this kind of thing.
I'll look at what it would take to match JUST words, and what the performance hit is. It's important to remember that these rules are being processed over EVERY SINGLE CURRENT airing in your guide across every channel.
Will adding “” around a string of words for keyword search for that specific phrase? So “National Football League” only pulls sources with that exact phrase. Currently if I add those words I end up with National and football and league which obviously produces unwanted additions.