"If it is true that “woof ticket” did not emerge into the mainstream print media until the 1980s and 1990s sources you cited, I would consider it a fascinating example of a short-lived slang locution entering written usage decades after it had achieved obsolescence in its original oral context."
"In the United States, for example, lower-socioeconomic audiences are especially heavy television viewers but depend less on print media than do “ups.”"