Grandad Geoff on the telly

Jamie had a nice treat tonight - he got to watch Grandad Geoff on the telly.

You'll probably have heard today's news that the famous Yorkshire Television studios in Leeds are to shut and many well known locally-made programmes such as Heartbeat and The Royal are to end production.

It is terrible news for Yorkshire and effectively spells the end of a once great institution.

Geoff anchored YTV's flagship teatime news programme Calendar for more than two decades - many of them alongside his great friend Richard Whiteley - and was asked to comment on today's story for BBC Look North. And, whilst very sad at what had happened, he was as professional as ever.

But, in every cloud there is invariably a silver lining and Geoff's appearance allowed his newest grandchild the chance to see the great man do his stuff for the first time.

Jamie didn't react as the show went out live. But I taped it and, after a couple of repeat showings of Grandad Geoff's bit, Jamie began to stir.

He didn't really watch the pictures to begin with and instead stood there looking very bemused at the sound of someone he clearly recognised but couldn't see.

I then managed to get his attention on to the screen itself and, after a couple more repeats, the voice and face must suddenly have matched in his little head - causing him to get quite animated. So I played the clip a few more times.

I had to scrape him off the telly in the end and, by then, he was rather excited and hopefully more than a little proud of his grandad. Quite right too.