NEW YORK NOTEBOOK : Snubbed by the Networks

The Democrats have hired a Hollywood producer, Gary Smith, to produce Broadway production numbers, “real-people” videos and other kinds of partisan promos each evening. But broadcasters, who are cutting back on their hours of prime-time coverage of the conventions this year, said they expect to carry only a small percentage of them. The networks said they would rather find “real people” of their own to react to events at the convention.